Word: tirpitz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chanted the assembled guests and banged till the glasses rattled. It was the 80th birthday, last week, of Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, Wartime commander of Germany's Navy, until 1916. The little mountain inn at Feldafing, Bavaria, on the shores of the Wurm See was crowded with Prussian Generals and Bavarian Princes. Perspiring waiters, imported from Munich, rushed to and from the kitchen bearing caviar, Rhine salmon, venison−in all 50 mountainous courses of food for the distinguished guests...
...Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news: John D. Rockefeller Jr., sojourning last week in Jerusalem, said: "My father is like Egypt-he has always good weather. At 89 he is still stronger than I am."* Alfred P. Friedrich von Tirpitz, erstwhile famed and defamed Lord High Admiral of the Imperial German Navy, now living in retirement at Feldafing on the shores of Starnberger Lake in Bavaria, near Munich, said: "Oh, well, perhaps I've outlived the times...
General Erich von Ludendorff and Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz declared, last week, that in the general election scheduled for this Spring they will not seek re-election as deputies of the Reichstag...
Behind this announcement loomed the fact that the reactionary parties to which Ludendorff and Tirpitz belong have dwindled vastly in prestige, of late, and may well be reduced to impotence if the forthcoming election shows a now widely prophesied shift to the left...
...seemed, last week, that Heroes Ludendorff and Tirpitz had turned their political tails just in time to avoid the odium of being seated on the definitely losing side...