Word: prussia
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...eleven, went to college, became a naturalized citizen, leaped into letters. His first small fame bloomed with publication of a book of poetry, grew a little brighter because of a story that his father was the bastard son of William I of Prussia, which would make him Kaiser Wilhelm's cousin...
...Reichstag, told him it was a Communist crime, and Thyssen believed that also. But after two years of the dictatorship, Thyssen took down the swastika from his house and communicated no further with the Nazi leaders, except for periodic protests. He resigned as a state councillor of Prussia, demanded that his councillor's salary be stopped. The Nazis kept on sending...
...guests at the royal wedding was little Prince William of Prussia (later the German Kaiser) who was seated between two of his British uncles who were wearing kilts. "The little boy amused himself by sinking his teeth and his nails alternately into the bare legs of his relatives . . . [who] were only restrained by the solemnity of the occasion from uttering cries of anguish...
...farmer was Hermann Rauschning (The Revolution of Nihilism}. Not a Junker, but "a distant connection of most of the Junker families of East Prussia," Rauschning ran "a medium-sized farm of not quite 250 acres" near Danzig, stepped up its sugar-beet and flax yield by intensive cultivation. Believing that "the breeder is a co-creator and an ennobler of nature," he raised purebred horses and heifers. Believing in "the full quiver," he sired eight children, lost three...
Said a Vichy captain to Correspondent Peters during Beirut's siege: "Nous nous battons pour le Roi de Prusse" (We are fighting for the King of Prussia...