Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stork Guffaws. Not superstitious, Bridegroom Göring masterfully ignored the general belief that one should not see one's bride on the wedding day before the ceremony. Piling his great bulk into an open Mercedes, already half full of roses and tulips, he drove to his Emmy's house on the same swank street as the U. S. Embassy, picked her up, drove on to the Realmchancellery, picked up Best Man Adolf Hitler and drove down a lane of 33,000 uniformed Nazis of both sexes...
...this General Göring had invented a completely new uniform with what seemed to be a great white bib jutting from under his lantern jaw. With no time to change uniforms at the City Hall, he whipped off his bib, snapped on a different detachable chestload of medals, donned a shimmering white scarf across his blue-grey chest...
...words of holy matrimony, almost the only thing he has done without public dispute since Catholic Hitler raised him from the rank of army chaplain to be the most unpopular head of Protestantism Germany has ever had. To Muller's question "Do you take this woman. . . ?" Göring replied "JA!" with the bellow of a drill sergeant. The State Actress answered "ja" so softly she could scarcely be heard...
...Herr and Frau Göring left the Cathedral her train was carried not by bridesmaids but by "bridesboys," ripe, apple-cheeked Nazi favorites...
...ladies who can count their medals few can finger so many that ring true as Selma Lagerlöf (pronounced Lahgerlef). A Swede who, in spite of international temptations, has remained stoutly Scandinavian, she has won her country's Nobel Prize (1909) without the slightest implication of local favoritism. She has written not only an international classic for children (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils) but an international classic for grown-ups (The Ring of the Löwenskölds). She is one of those rare writers whose flavor is not spoiled by translation. And at 76 she remains...