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Word: teutons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with glassy-eyed escorts, and a great dun horde which prides itself on loving music more than show but nonetheless selects the first night of the opera to hear it. The restless din of Society nearly swamped moments of the final act. It was too much for one outraged Teuton who drooped among the lower classes behind the standees' rail. "Quiet please!" he wailed over the surging strains of Artur Bodanzky's orchestra and the equally surging conversational hum. "Der iss an opera going on. It iss a good opera; you might like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Metropolitan Opera | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...story, "Crack up," on the credit side are found the perennial, satisfactorily sinister Teuton, Peter Lorre, and a new scene for a climax, an airplane floating on the Atlantic Ocean. Unfortunately, uninterrupted dialogue of a third or four the hand nature makes the total insultingly familiar. We found ourselves speaking the actors' lines in advance...

Author: By M. F. E., | Title: PARAMOUNT & FENWAY | 3/13/1937 | See Source »

...runs in one game three times and once he hit four. Last week, for the fourth time, he was voted the most valuable player in his league. In four previous World Series Gehrig has batted at the incredible figures of .348, .308, .545 and .529. An amiable, modest young Teuton with less taste for luxury than for the eels which his mother still fries in large batches for him, Gehrig lives in a small house in New Rochelle, plays bridge, saves money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Equinoctial Climax | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...Hess. As usual the Jew-baiting Nürnberg Nazi Boss, brutal Julius Streicher, Governor of Franconia, glad-handed the delegates. And as usual the annual Proclamation-in effect a State of the Nation speech-written by Adolf Hitler was delivered by Adolf Wagner, Munich Nazi Leader, a true Teuton orator whose rasping pugnacious voice sounds almost exactly like Der Führer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nazis at Numb erg | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

...behind the Realmleader was 1,000 feet wide and the pedestal from which he speaks had become a lofty pinnacle. With blaring bands, solemn chanting, clockwork goose-stepping and dramatic searchlight and spotlight work, Adolf Hitler was made to appear more than ever what in fact he is-the Teuton Messiah. He had a Message this year bolder than ever before. In the final build-up of tense emotion, 400 new German heavy bombers and fighting aircraft of all sorts literally darkened the sky above Nürnberg, made windows rattle with the bellow of their motors and brought gulps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nazis at Numb erg | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

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