Word: prussianize
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...Chicago, George Series, 15, and Edward Mendenhall Jr., 16, went off to join the U. S. Army. They took with them: two bayonets of the Franco-Prussian War, one bayonet of the Civil War, one plain bayonet, one fancy dress sword...
...Willkie family, under Herman Willkie, lawyer, book lover, Prussian-hater, had grown up in an atmosphere of argument that began when Father Willkie woke the boys with a bellowed quotation (a favorite of Lincoln's): "Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" and lasted until the evening hour, when he would read to them from one of the 6,700 books that lined the spreading, maple-shaded house...
This methodical craftiness was nothing new : it was the old story of Prussian military precision. The new element which was injected into last week's raids was the fury of Adolf Hitler. There was no more "armed reconnaissance" last week - the raids were to destroy, kill, retaliate a thousandfold. Night raids were no longer designed for insomnia - they were designed for the sleep of death...
Marshal Sperrle is the Prussian type-massive, heavy-featured, monocled. He flew in World War I, was shot down and severely wounded. He led the Condor Legion in the Spanish Civil War, where hundreds of Germany's best pilots received their battle training in relays...
...Hitler thrown in for good political measure. The most competent of this art (like the innocuously pleasant white Aryan nude of No. 1 Reich Sculptor Josef Thorak) would not have disgraced a high-class Victorian barroom of the 18905. The worst of it, resplendent with heiling storm troopers and Prussian eagles, would have looked well in a 1940 beer hall...