Word: teuton
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...college," he said. Whatmough emphasized the fact that he referred to the "easily learned languages of Western Europe," such as French, German, and Spanish, which are all much like English, and did not mean Russian or any other of the more difficult tongues not based on Latin or Teuton roots...
...England in 1916 to consult with Sunbeam Motors, Ltd., and had discovered, to his astonishment, that his name made him an object of suspicion. The British-who had read U.S. sport pages and had discovered that he was called the "Happy Heinie," the "Daredevil Dutchman," and the "Wild Teuton"-detained him on arrival, took his shoes apart looking for messages, and scrubbed his chest with lemon juice in the hope of developing secret writing. When he returned to the U.S. a British agent followed...
...calls the German Jew a yecki (roughly: squarehead), laughs at his naiveté. Many of the yecki are physicians (of that great, devoted band of German-Jewish doctors) and they have a hard time adjusting to the land. Many try chicken farming, going about it in that highly scientific Teuton way which makes the Polish and Russian Israelis guffaw. They say that when one yecki found a sick chicken he sent all the way to India for a serum, inoculated every one of his flock. They tell of a yecki with an old dry cow who asked a Polish...
Small 'd' democrat personally and politically in the strictest sense, Gropius is simultaneously an elegant Teuton and an acclimatized New Englander who, "feels very positive toward this country." With his second wife Ise he likes to ride horseback by the shore of Walden Pond, a stone's throw from his home. "I'm so acquainted with the Massachusetts landscape," he laughs, "I know the foxes and grouse personally." An untiring host for visiting Europeans and student disciples, he is a connoisseur of French foods and the delicate Continental wines of which there are "only imitations in this country...
...Flight of the Birds. To the Germans, dreamers of efficient dreams, Ford had always been a special hero. One of the innumerable books about him (which usually found a place of honor near Mein Kampf) declared: "It is magnificent how the Aryan, the Teuton, the Saxon, the true masterman comes to life in Ford...