Word: prussianize
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...Queen Victoria, by imperial fiat of her grandson George V. Luminous paragraphs culled from the Queen's earnest pages: Of Wilhelm II (her grandson, at the age of seven [1866], five years before his Hohenzollern grandfather, Wilhelm I, was proclaimed Emperor of Germany [1871] after the Franco Prussian War). "Dear little Willie's birthday ... a clever, dear, good little child. . . . May God preserve him and may he grow up good, clever, liberal minded in his views, worthy of his beloved grandpa.† who was so anxious about him that he should not grow up into a conceited Prussian...
Alaunts Double, a bulldog as scarred and seamed and magnetically ugly as a Prussian duelist. Owned by Lee & Rawes of Philadelphia. There was an even uglier dog in this class, Sensible Fred, owned by Thomas Grisdale of New York. But he was not quite so sound as Alaunts, and soundness, in a bulldog, is more important even than spectacular hideousness...
...Netherlands, founded in the Seventh Century by a Briton, Saint Willibrord. Its modern strength dates from 1870, when there acceded to it many Roman Catholic bishops who could not agree to the doctrine of papal infallibility promulgated and accepted by the Vatican Council just interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War. Old Catholics insist on the peerage of the bishops, and further object to the stringently monarchial system of the Roman Catholic Church...
...None the less I personally chopped down my own Christmas tree and superintended its decoration. Later I donned the full regalia of a Prussian Feldmarschall, inspected the servants' quarters and distributed gifts among the domestic staff. With the approach of evening I clapped a black skull cap upon my head, and delivered a sermon on the Nativity to an audience composed of Hermine (my wife), Wilhelm and members of the Dutch nobility. Finally Hermine and I seated ourselves upon an improvised throne in the Great Hall. Behind us was placed a huge scowling bust of Frederick the Great. I presented...
Peter's older brother, Ivan, is a moron; his sister, Sofia, is grasping for the throne. His mother's lover, Prince Galizyn, has been inherited by Sofia. A Prussian lieutenant tutors Peter in the palace at Preobrashensk. One day tailors arrive. Peter is outfitted and taken to Moscow. Ivan is dead. Peter is proclaimed Tsar...