Word: sachsen
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...original Oktoberfest, held in Munich in 1810, was a horse race celebrating the marriage between King Louis I and Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen. In the following years it developed into a two-week fair, ending on the first Sunday in October, with booths serving food and drink. Today these booths in Germany serve more than 1,175,000 gallons of beer annually...
...Russian occupation, the suit dragged on. In 1950 Anna herself, a fuzzy-minded, aging woman surrounded by a court of solicitous refugees, was living in an old army shack on the edge of the Black Forest, as a poverty-stricken pensioner of Prince Friedrich Ernst von Sachsen-Altenburg...
...Reader Christensen write to Firma Rudolf Fabricius, Neusalza-Spremberg, Sachsen, Germany. The game is German Patent...
...seamy, saturnine man of 50, Captain Lehmann's career makes him fully equipped to command Germany's greatest airship. A naval architect on Count Ferdinand Zeppelin's staff, he was operating the dirigible Sachsen when the War began. As a raider, he bombed Antwerp once, London twice, afterwards claimed he could have destroyed the British capital completely if the Germans had so desired. Once he went home with 400 bullet holes in his ship's fabric. Continuing in the profession after the War, he rose to be assistant director of the Zeppelin works, alternated with...
...Graf Zeppelin on her home jaunt was small, saturnine Capt. Ernst A. Lehmann, 42, Assistant Director of the Zeppelin works and easily Dr. Ecke-ner's peer in airship navigation. He was a naval architect on the late Count Ferdinand Zeppelin's staff and was operating a Zeppelin, the Sachsen, when the War broke out. Perforce he became a raider, bombed Antwerp once, London twice. In his book The Zeppelins, he reports, without boast or apology, that he could have destroyed London were that the German desire. He invented the device of concealing dirigible raiders by lowering a pilot...