Word: rhein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambrose, Ozone Park, N. Y.; Nathan Belfer, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Harry E. von Bergen, Roslindale, Mass.; Milliam A. Betz, Columbia, Mo.; Robert M. Boyd, New York, N. Y.; John K. Bragg, Charleston, S. C.; John C. Brechin, Bristol, R. I.; Loring T. Briggs, Taunton, Mass.; Ferdinand F. Bruck, Bonn Rhein, Germany; John P. R. Budlong, East Greenwich, R. I.; Myron I. Burnes, Brookline, Mass...
Logorrheic is an adjective founded upon the Greek roots logos (word) and rhein (to flow). Webster's New International Dictionary lists the noun TIME used adjectivally: "Logorrhea (psychopathological). Excessive and often incoherent talkativeness...
Bursting with excitement, Herr Doktor Oberbürgermeister ("Lord Mayor") Günter Riesen of Cologne buttoned himself into his sausage-tight Nazi Storm Troop uniform and took his stance, shortly after noon, facing the Square. To Rhinelanders in whose bones is bred Die Wacht am Rhein with its ringing, tingling question: "The Rhine, the Rhine, the German Rhine! Who guards tonight our Stream Divine?" This was the most blissful moment in 17 years. Adam's apples gulped as on three bicycles the very first real GERMAN SOLDIERS, trim lads in grim steel helmets, swerved into the Square...
...Nineteen-Niners could forget the bellowing, arm-waving German youth who won his first Harvard fame playing the piano at a freshman beer party. When "Putzy" Hanfstaengl first heard the Yale cheering section sing "Bright College Years" he cried out: "Why the Elis! They sing my Wacht am Rhein!" Scion of the great Connecticut and Massachusetts family of Sedgwick and the famed art-printers of Munich, he made the good Harvard clubs. But his Harvard loyalty and his German patriotism split badly in 1915 when he raised his cheerful bellow in Manhattan's Harvard Club in celebration...
...Rhine, the Rhine The German Rhine! Who guards today My stream divine? -"Die Wacht Am Rhein...