Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have exhibited with their weapons during the past season, the Harvard fencers, with one exception, were forced out in the second round of the individual championships of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association Saturday and yesterday. R. B. Lawson '32, the only man to remain in the running, was defeated by Kaiser of California in the finals of the sabre bouts...
...last hours as Kaiser, indecisive Wilhelm II asked General Groener whether he and other German officers would keep the oath they had sworn to their Emperor. Replied General Groener who today is Germany's Minister of Interior and Defense, "What is an oath, Your Majesty? It is only an idea...
...flag of Capitalism." Patriotic indignation overflowed. By open letter Shaw tried to persuade Wilson to request that Great Britain, France and Germany should withdraw from Belgium and fight in their own territories. He re-reminded the President of "the quaint absurdity of a war waged formally between the German Kaiser, the German Tsar, the German King of the Belgians, the German King of England, the German Emperor of Austria." Shaw could see the absurdity of the War, could not see the absurdity of fighting witless circumstance with wit. For all his labors nothing but scandal ensued. Right down...
...years ago, and accompanied His Majesty to almost everything except the state openings of Parliament. Snip died in April. Mourned by the royal household and the nation, he was buried in Sandringham by the side of Edward VII's dog Caesar who had the distinction of preceding the Kaiser at his master's funeral...
...vieil imbecile-so say the French, but not of Foch. Though an oldish soldier (62) when the War began, he became before its close France's symbol and stimulant of undefeat. "The Man of Orleans," as Biographer Hart subtitles him, filled the role of national redeemer when the Kaiser was Satan and when, for a four-year wink of the Divine eye, God was French...