Word: rhineland
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...President signified his intention of being present at the Düsseldorf festival on June 19, in connection with the celebration of the 1,000th anniversary of Henry the Fowler's victory over the Franks which gave the Rhineland to Germany...
...howitzers would set up their belching chorus of explanation any day, but the day was continually postponed. It was supposed that defense would be offered on the basis that the Government had to indemnify the industrialists for their losses in order to prevent the secession of the Ruhr and Rhineland from Germany. Eventually the Government will ask the Reichstag to give its expost facto agreement to the disbursed credits...
...shot back with great accuracy. Three of their shots found a mark-the goal of a French workmen's soccer team. The German goal, at the other end of the field in the Buffalo Velodrome, came off unscathed. It was the first Franco-German sporting event (outside the Rhineland) since the Armistice. Said despatches: "Ten thousand Frenchmen cheered the winners. There was no hissing...
...shot back with great accuracy. Three of their shots found a mark-the goal of a French workmen's soccer team. The German goal, at the other end of the field in the Buffalo Velodrome, came off unscathed. It was the first Franco-German sporting event (outside the Rhineland) since the Armistice. Said despatches: "Ten thousand Frenchmen cheered the winners. There was no hissing...
...which presents the Court and the chief characters in the Court in their true perspective, without the bias of a La Bruyère, and which contains much sober comment on the depravities of the times, the inefficiency of doctors, and the wantonness of the French attack upon the Rhineland.† Moreover, it escapes the condemnation of reading like a translation, which is the best proof of the good scholarship of the editor and translator...