Word: uniformally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aged Tiger. General Pershing, Commanders Savage and Spafford and a delegation largely representative of the 48 States, trooped up the steps of a house in the Avenue de Messine, Paris. When the door opened, an 87-year-old figure in grey uniform, grey police cap and grey cotton gloves hurried down the hall. "How do you do? Old friend, what are you doing here?" said the grey figure...
...therefore sent to Amerongen Castle to secure the Kaiser's formal abdication as German Emperor and King of Prussia. For three days the Kaiser refused to see the Baron. Finally, as von Maltzan was about to depart, he encountered the All Highest, clad in the field grey uniform of a marshal, in a corridor of the castle. Said the Kaiser, insult ingly: "You too belong to the rascals of the Foreign Office who cheated and lied to me throughout my reign." Replied Baron von Maltzan: "I beg pardon, but as far as I am concerned I do not deserve...
Clad in his marshal's uniform, with the baton of his rank in his left hand, the aged Hindenburg, almost 80, passed through the cheering throng, stopping now and then to say a few words to a former comrade-in-arms. He is grim, cool, calm, yet genial enough on occasion. Germans recall a story about their President that exemplifies his peculiar wit: One of his old friends is alleged to have asked...
...situation is somewhat unusual. The President (pedagogic Professor Ignatz Moscicki) is the impotent puppet of Josef Pilsudski, Premier, Minister of War & Marshal of Poland, who is actually the law. Although he appears in the Sejm on important occasions (such as political crises, when he dons his much-worn military uniform to terrify his opponents), he leaves much governmental business to another puppet: Vice Premier & Minister of Religion & Education, Professor Kazimierz Bartel...
Last week the Socialists began one of their periodical moves to eliminate the dread Pilsudski. But the hulking, burly, stern-eyed Marshal, without waiting to don his uniform, rushed from his summer home near Vilna to the capital, and roared: "I will not tolerate these tendencies of the Sejm to kick over the traces...