Word: teutonic
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...flowing white tie, broad-brimmed hat, cape); in Manhattan. He founded New York's Society of Beaux Arts Architects, originated the famed Beaux Arts Balls. When he had finished reconstructing the Louvain Library he wanted on its balustrade the inscription Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta ("Destroyed by Teuton Fury; Restored by American Generosity"), but pacifist groups killed the plan. In 1940 Teuton fury destroyed the library again...
...from Communist partisans, who were probably better organized among Slavic peoples than any others in Europe, it was a good guess that General Mihailovich's appointment had the assent of the U.S.S.R. Like most other Serbs, Mihailovich had been pro-Russian in the long-standing Balkan struggle between Teuton and Slav...
...Teuton Toutin...
Having never been able to exactly clasp Bertie Wooster and Jeeves to my entertainment bosom, I can ALMOST understand why, after spending long years with them, Old Plum might be going for a little Teuton toutin' around Berlin-just for comedy relief...
...Teuton or Celt, or whatever...