Word: baser
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Said the general last spring: "Charlemagne introduced Jewish Christianity into Germany. He destroyed the Teutonic faith in Woden. . . . Behind all our troubles lie Charlemagne and the Pope" (TIME, June 16). Other recent eccentricities of General von Ludendorff include an interest in alchemy and the manufacture of gold from baser metals. Consistent with his Woden worship, he published and had his second wife edit a journal called Volkswarte, dedicated to antiSemitism. Through Volkswarte the von Ludendorffs spread the news that Jews and Masons were plotting to kill certain German notables, that Jews had wrecked railway trains to increase the sale...
...will remove the same or be relieved of their licenses (see the Boston Herald, the Chief of Police or Ezekiel 23). Frequenters of such landmarks as the Loch-Ober Cafe and Jake Wirth's will be delighted to know that these historic features which have so often influenced their baser natures in the past, are to be relegated to the scrap heap...