Word: rhineland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anew for an equal depth on both sides. The French dig up out of the ground along the frontier a section of their $300,000,000 concrete and steel forts with heavy gun emplacements, the Belgians similarly abolish their frontier forts, and the Germans merely march out of the Rhineland the troops they last week marched in with such rejoicings...
German dwellers in the Rhineland, ever proud of their flower-scented golden wines and their square-headed, hobnailed soldiers, have been chafing for 17 long years under Prohibition-of German soldiers...
...first they had plenty of U. S., British and French soldiers. Definitely the apple-cheeked wenches of the Rhineland are open-armed to soldiers. One day last week they could be seen giggling from thousands of windows in such great cities as Cologne, Aachen, Frankfort and Düsseldorf as wild, electric rumors sped that Prohibition of German soldiers was almost over...
...wenches' joy did not exceed that of the Rhineland menfolk. In Cologne the reaction of a dignified German burgher on his way by street car to a funeral in crape arm band and black stovepipe hat was significant. On hearing the glorious rumor, he swung off the street car and bustled toward Cathedral Square, where the first troops were expected to arrive, puffing: "The first soldier I get my hands on is going to get as cockeyed-drunk at my expense as I did when I was a soldier in 1914-and I'm going to get cockeyed...
...preliminary squadron of nine German battle planes had come thundering from the direction of Berlin to wheel around the spires of Cologne Cathedral and then melt away again into the blue of the East. Not a word would any Rhineland official say to confirm the report that German soldiers were really coming, but since 5 a. m. grapevine rumor had been spreading through Cologne, making blue German eyes sparkle and apple cheeks flush brighter...