Word: und
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also had a son in the tradition, Friedrich Alfred Krupp, who purchased the "Germania" shipyard at Kiel, expanded the industry until it employed 40,000 workmen. At his death in 1902, he was succeeded by his elder and able daughter Bertha who in 1906 married Dr. Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach. At that time, Germany was just getting into her stride in the naval competition with Great Britain, and the demand for steel was enormous. Before the War, visitors to Essen stood aghast at the monstrous flame-belching foundries hastily proceeding with their grotesquely demoniacal output. And during...
...Hochs!" were shouted when old Paul von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg entered the onetime "Kaiser Box" in the German Reichstag and sat down with republican democracy in civilian attire. Attentive witnesses reported that the onetime Feldmarschal fidgeted inattentively as Chancellor Wilhelm Marx loquaciously conveyed to him "the good wishes of the Republic...
...seat. Wagner's back itched. Princes? Metternich nodded, smiled, as from the orchestra swelled forth great chords, low symphony. Wagner sat tense-slumped down aghast, ashamed at whistles, catcalls, boos, hisses. Princess Metternich sobbed. Wagner went to Vienna, since Germany had exiled him. Again, Prince Metternich, please. . . Tristan und Isolde was accepted, rehearsed 57 times, abandoned-the tenor was incompetent. Vexed, Wagner produced Der Ring des Nibelungen. King Ludwig of Bavaria gazed on that pageant with vacuous wondering eye. He was no fool. Even Frederick the Great had bent the knee to Voltaire. Ludwig would have Wagner...
...stressed felicitously the concord of Science and Government. † Francis Charles Augustus Albert Emmanuel of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha. *This speech marked a turning point in the victorious struggle of Disraeli against Gladstone for the export of Church-of- Englanders...
Boris is, of course, descended from the excessively blue-blooded Bourbon and Coburg stock. One of his great-grandfathers was Louis Philippe. The House of Windsor (originally Saxe-Coburg und Gotha) pulses with the same blood as his. His father, "Foxy Ferdinand," first Tsar of Bulgaria, "peer of Edward VII among royal diplomats," boldly declared the independence of the principality of Bulgaria in 1908, and proceeded to erect it with consummate skill into the present "little tsardom...