Word: prussianize
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...disgruntled Prussian militarists of the Ludendorff school blame Germany's loss of the War on Christianity. They have started a cult of Wodan, the Teuton's remorseless God of War. Last week a sermon on Wodan was preached by General Erich von Ludendorff himself to a group of Wodanists assembled in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein...
From the portico of the formal, old-fashioned building in Berlin that used to be the assembly hall of the Prussian upper house, last week fluttered a flag embellished with five interlinking rings. It was the flag of the International Olympic Committee, the five rings symbolizing the brotherly accord, in sport, of five continents. Inside the former Herrenhaus met delegates from 45 nations to the Olympic Congress. They talked all week, making plans and taking cognizance of plans already carried out for the Tenth Olympic Games, to be held in Los Angeles in 1932.* Women's Events. Count Baillet...
...years ago, spoke tall Bernard Mannes Baruch, speculator and financier extraordinary, economist, authority on mineral waters. His father was a Prussian-Polish Jew who emigrated to the U. S., served as a field surgeon in General Lee's army; his mother was the daughter of a Southern planter. Bernard Mannes Baruch went north as a young man, became famed for his market operations, his floating of the great Goldfield Consolidated Mining Co. during the panic of 1907 and, later, for his services as Chairman of the War Industries Board. Memories of this last occupation gave him material...
Washburne graduated from the Law School in 1839, after which time he distinguished himself as a member of Congress-from 1852 until 1869, and as Minister to France during the years 1869-77, in the height of the Franco-Prussian war, when Paris itself was threatened by the enemy...
...Whereas wealthy and victorious England is well able to care for her disabled soldiers," reads the will, "disabled German soldiers (the great majority of whom were conscripted under the former rigorous system of Prussian militarism) can only receive meagre pensions in their poor, defeated country...