Word: teutonic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sportive and popular Teuton savant, Count Hermann Keyserling,* has said: "The two contributions of America to world culture are Professor Dewey and Negro jazz...
Meanwhile, unfortunate Queen Victoria Eugénie is not likely to forget that she is descended (through her father) from the Teuton family of Hesse-Darmstadt. In the strain of that House abides the dread and mysterious disease, haemophilia...
Unlike his famed grandsire, who (according to Emil Ludwig, famed Teuton biographer) until he was well past 30 was considered a "Taugenichts" (good-for-nothing), annoying his neighbors with his scandalous affairs with women, Prince Otto, if intellectually inferior, is a mild-mannered, well-behaved citizen of the Republic. Whereas the great Bismarck, while extremely sensitive, was permeated by an intense hatred of mankind, with the exception of his wife and children, who he loved and adored above everything else, despite the fact that he was three times engaged before he could find a woman who would marry...
Among the Germans was Herr Doktor Gustav Stresemann, Reich Foreign Minister and leader of the Teuton delegation, his lynx-like eyes darting about, occasionally flashing with amusement. But never did his thin lips part in a smile, nor his heavy jowls open to emit a guffaw. Noted was his extreme pallor. With him was Count Johann Heinrich von Bern-storff, onetime German Ambassador to Washington, sphinxlike, debonair, aging...
...City. Few towns have greater wealth of story than Salzburg. There, Marcus Aurelius, soldier, established Roman headquarters among the Teuton tribes and brooded on philosophy. There Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to music. There the ecclesiastical princes came nearest to realizing the medieval dream of an all-powerful church and a beautiful state...