Word: wiesbadener
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...later on one of his frequent visits to Germany the Grand Duke of Hesse gave him the cordon of the Order of Philip the Magnanimous in recognition of his hearty German goodness. Ten days later he died of dropsy at "Villa Lily" in Langenschwal-bach on the hills above Wiesbaden...
...outbreak of the War he became general director, then Minister of Munitions. Thereafter, until his death, he held 14 ministries in various cabinets. Often called "the Stinnes of France," M. Loucheur helped draft the economic sections of the Treaty of Versailles, negotiated Reparations payments-in-kind at Wiesbaden with the late Walther Rathenau, German Minister of Reconstruction...
...Wiesbaden in the early evening the 82-year-old Field-Marshal showed his only sign of strain. He excused himself from watching hundreds of schoolchildren enact the jubilation of the Elbe, the Voder, the Danube and several other German rivers at the liberation of "Their Sister, the Rhine...
...Wiesbaden and at Bingen last week the last British troops shouldered their haversacks, marched out of Germany. Left behind was a lone Briton, one William Seeds, Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commissioner since 1928, who must represent the dignity and power of the British Empire in Germany until the last French and Belgian troops have quit the third Rhineland zone in June...
Chess matches last so long that they acquire an individual character, an atmosphere, like that of a long book or a ponderous piece of music. When Dr. Alexander Alekhine and E. D. Bogoljubow began to play for the championship of the world last September in Wiesbaden it was soon evident that their match was unusual. It was no timid conflict between rivals mutually afraid of each other. It was a sort of scherzo in slow motion. They explored obscure, experimental lines of play. Instead of brooding for hours in the approved fashion of chess masters, they became at times noticeably...