Word: teuton
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...Mike, famed Bowery bravo of 20 years ago, was known as the Singing Waiter because he warbled as he doled out lager to the Nigger's clients. Prince Louis of Battenberg, on a slumming party, went to hear him. Warmed by the lager, or pleased with the song, the Teuton princeling profered ten cents. Baline, unaccustomed to the ways of royalty, staggered back. The riff-raff stared; up stepped a ruddy reporter, overawed both Prince and waiter with a cataclysm of questions. Next day, Berlin received his first publicity. The reporter, one Herbert Bayard Swope, now edits The New York...
...sister married the German Count Albert von Quadt, onetime Charge d'Affaires of the German Embassy at Washington?; thus, on that score alone, De Martino was well known in the Teuton grand monde. He had, from August, 1914, until Italy entered the War in 1915, constantly, loudly and successfully counseled Italy to abandon the Triple Alliance and join the Triple Entente. On this account, too, he was well known in Germany?and well hated. His position called, it was said, for the utmost "dignity, tact, patience and firmness", all of which qualities he showed superlatively...
...reparations and how they are to be paid. France has affirmed more than once that she wants solid guarantees against invasion by Germany. At Versailles the United States and Britain were to have made a treaty with her promising aid in the case of unprovoked attack by her Teuton neighbor. This treaty, as all the world knows, was never concluded, and France was left out in the cold to defend herself. She decided that the occupation of the Ruhr was the best way of doing it, for in no other way could she get the protection she needed. The main...
...love the bloody Bolshevik--damn him by all means. I do not love the turbid Teuton--he was caught starting a war, and it is right that France, the sinless nation, should cast the first stone. But still less do I love that intolerance in our own political thought which makes us unable to contradict a gentleman, Senator though he be, without foamings at the mouth and manifestings of his (the Senator's) inner vileness to the sun. HEBARD PAINE '25. January...
...reported of Marshal Foch that once, as he was standing with General Pershing and many of the leaders of the British and French armies, someone asked him how he proposed to turn back the apparently irresistible Teuton and conduct his final campaign. Without a word the Marshal, stooping over, drew with his cane in the dust of the roadway the plan of battle which was to end in victory the following November...