Word: viktor
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...after 17 days the dogged push began to slow up. The Germans had retreated slowly to the line of their stoutest defenses, then held. And while the Germans stood the battering, they flung reserves into action. Under 57-year-old Lieut. General Viktor von Schwedler, they knifed savagely into the Russians below Kharkov in the Barvenkovo-Izyum area. The Russians, admitting that it was a surprise attack, braced to meet it. The Germans were stopped. Once again the Russian defense proved itself...
Three viktorias in as many lines-and I could quote you half a dozen poems more. If I had a dollar for every German girl whose name is Viktoria, or every German boy whose name is Viktor, I should comfortably afford to subscribe for FORTUNE. Ask Vicki Baum some time, if you don't believe...
...Power and Glory. Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert, son of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany, was born in 1859, three and one-half years before Bismarck became Chancellor. Bismarck soon weaned him away from his none-too-doting parents, persuaded his Emperor-Grandfather to make him a Lieutenant of Infantry at the age of ten. Bismarck had him riding a horse at twelve in the victory parade when Wilhelm I celebrated the conquest of France...
...usual the announcement of intention to attack came after the attack. At 5:15 a.m. the Germans struck. At 5:30 o'clock the German Minister to Athens, Viktor Prinz zu Erbach-Schönberg, presented a note to the Greek Government announcing that, because of the wicked British, it would be necessary to attack Greece. As usual the German High Command announced that Yugoslav and British troops having advanced against them, it had been necessary to "counter-attack...
...furniture older than 30 years, it has probably been imported from Croatia or somewhere else. We Serbs had to fight, and time and again we have lost everything in defense of our honor and our integrity. The Croats-well, they still have their furniture." The German Minister, Georg Viktor von Heeren, rushed to the Foreign Office to bluster. Old Dr. Nintchitch gave him exactly six minutes to speak his piece...