Word: prussianize
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...Magda" it is the old Prussian paternalism, proud, self-righteous, and unbending, against the new spirit of freedom and the unbreakable will of a talented, restless woman. Magda, driven to leave her home early in life by the narrow and unsympathetic intolerance of her father returns twelve years later, a great and universally honored singer. But before attaining this pinnacle of success she had gone through a long period of degradation and poverty. She had been true to herself always, but realizes that her father with his stern and limited conception of morality could never comprehend the irregularities...
...Subscriber Sperling explain his meaning. "Mademoiselle Fifi" is the nickname of a Prussian officer, created in fiction by Guy de Maupassant, who has him propose (in 1870) to five French filles de joie (one of them a Jewess) and his brother officers, the toast: "Ours, every woman of France...
...Christian girls cower, but the Jewess, Rachel, cries : "I! I! I'm not a woman, I'm only a-a - slut! That's good enough for a Prussian!" Forthwith she stabs "Mademoiselle Fifi" in the throat, killing him, then escapes by jumping out the window, finally hides for months in a church tower, fed and cared for by the priest and the sacristan...
...Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and the Reorganization of Germany" Professor Langer, Harvard 6, History...
Erich Ludendorff, semi-Napoleonic Prussian war lord: " 'Amazing!' commented the Press last week on the details just revealed, by Dr. Edward Hjelf, onetime Finnish Minister to Berlin, of my escape from Germany in 1918, just before the revolution. Dr. Hjelf said that I, fearing for my life, appealed to him, through the Finnish Foreign Office, for protection. He went on to state that he secured for me a diplomatic passport in the name of one Ernest Lindstrom, Counselor of the Ministry. Another Finnish diplomat, named Lindblom, had just died, but few knew it, and Dr. Hjelf, saying...