Word: teutonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finest story in the issue is by Kurt Blankmeyer, a piece called Saturday Burial, which describes the narrator's childhood experiences with a mad widow, and her dog Siegfried. The widow is a powerful Teuton transparently called Edda Norse, and the story has a conscious Germanic flavor and a fine not to say exciting Wagnerian ending. Saturday Burial is written in the same half-understanding, wide-eyed manner as Blankmeyer's Victory Over Japan, but less skillfully. The development is somewhat mechanical, and the events which should happen spontaneously seem to be plotted by an all-too-visible hand...
Historically there is only one possible victory for the Teuton, and that's against The Yellow Horde. On the other hand, this is indeed shallow praise, since the most trivial of European powers can spot the Yellow Horde both nefarious cunning and staggering odds, and still win handily. If the European power happens to be a troop of English bow-men who took a wrong turn at Vienna on the way to a Crusade, the slaughter is appalling. Studios have teetered on the rim of bankruptcy hiring enough extras to present realistically the number of Orientals slain under these circumstances...
...college," he said. Whatmough emphasized the fact that he referred to the "easily learned languages of Western Europe," such as French, German, and Spanish, which are all much like English, and did not mean Russian or any other of the more difficult tongues not based on Latin or Teuton roots...
...England in 1916 to consult with Sunbeam Motors, Ltd., and had discovered, to his astonishment, that his name made him an object of suspicion. The British-who had read U.S. sport pages and had discovered that he was called the "Happy Heinie," the "Daredevil Dutchman," and the "Wild Teuton"-detained him on arrival, took his shoes apart looking for messages, and scrubbed his chest with lemon juice in the hope of developing secret writing. When he returned to the U.S. a British agent followed...