Word: schweinerei
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...that clinched Ernst's attitudes to authority. He spent the war years in the German army, in both France and Poland. When he came out of the army he found comradeship with a generation of gifted, irascible young .intellectuals and artists whose loathing of that "whole immense Schweinerei of the imbecilic war" crossed the frontiers of Europe: Jean Arp and Tristan Tzara in Zurich, George Grosz, John Heartfield and Raoul Hausmann in Berlin, Kurt Schwitters in Hannover, André Breton and his growing circle in Paris...
Lemp fired four torpedoes. One hit. It took 112 lives, including 16 children and 69 women, some of whom jumped to suicide when their children drowned. From Athenia's SOS, Lemp learned his victim's name. "So eine Schweinerei!" he exploded: "Warum fährt der aber auch abgeblendet?" (What a mess! But why was she blacked out?) The British called it murder. Goebbels screamed that the villain Churchill had ordered Athenia sunk by British forces, to make a new Lusitania incident and drag the U.S. again into...
Last week Vintner Korn was in jail in Wiesbaden awaiting trial. If convicted of fraud, he faces up to ten years at hard labor. To German winegrowers, the law-if anything-is too lenient. At their annual convention at Wiirzburg, they denounced Korn's alchemy as "Schweinerei" (swinishness), demanded harsher penalties against "gottverdammte Weinpanscher und Weinfaelscher" (wine waterers and wine phoniers). They fret that if Korn's secret is revealed in detail at the trial, the publicity may encourage others to follow his example. Said a Bonn barkeep: "If it's that easy to make good Niersteiner...
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