Word: tirpitzes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thronging Berliners waved British flags and cried "Hoch!" joyfully as Edward of Wales arrived at Berlin by airplane last week, and strolled down Unter den Linden, He wore the natty uniform of a British naval officer, and thus clad was presented to Chancellor Wilhelm Marx by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz. Who but this shy, almost wistful prince could have made Germans forget the War and throng around him in a tribute to his personality as miraculous as it was sincere...
Such were the self-revealing remarks of Premier Benito Mussolini last week to a Swiss correspondent who referred by chance, in Il Duce's presence, to the famed mutton chop whiskers of German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz...
From the Tenno* to whom he is what von Tirpitz was to Wilhelm II, Admiral Togo accepted, perforce, The Grand Order of the Chrysanthemum, The First Order of the Golden Kite, and his creation in 1907 as a count. At the time of his capture of Port Arthur the State declared the victory due to "the Virtue of the Tenno." The Tenno ascribed it to the intercession of his ancestors. Admiral Togo, asked which of these theories he favored, replied gravely and laconically: "Both...
...just before Boy-Ed was recalled to Germany at the request of the State Department, the U. S. Secret Service intercepted a German cable addressed to him which read: "YOU MAY MARRY TIRPITZ." Puzzled, U. S. cryptographic experts toiled over these four words, failed to extract a meaning from what they took to be a fathomless code, at length goaded almost to distraction cautiously persisted in holding up the cable...
Meanwhile Miss Virginia Mackay-Smith, daughter of Bishop Mackay-Smith of Washington, fretted and grew petulant because the dashing and long socially popular Captain Boy-Ed insisted that he had not yet received permission from his superior, Grand Admiral Tirpitz, to marry her and take her back with him to Germany. Boy-Ed sailed without Miss Mackay-Smith, who was obliged to wait for the War to end before hastening to marry him in Germany...