Word: teutonic
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...Hess. As usual the Jew-baiting Nürnberg Nazi Boss, brutal Julius Streicher, Governor of Franconia, glad-handed the delegates. And as usual the annual Proclamation-in effect a State of the Nation speech-written by Adolf Hitler was delivered by Adolf Wagner, Munich Nazi Leader, a true Teuton orator whose rasping pugnacious voice sounds almost exactly like Der Führer...
...this is wrapped in much verbosity dear to Teuton hearts. A basic ambiguity has always been that to Germans the very name of Germany is so closely related to that of Austria that the words and ideas are fluid and merge if one "thinks in German." Thus the late great Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria gave his life in maintaining its "independence" from Germany (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934), and yet he gave Austria a new Constitution with these words: "We Austrians are German and have a German country...
Some orations are of definite greatness, and the speech of Adolf Hitler to the German Reichstag last week was in that class. It has always been Herr Hitler's technique, ever since his Nazi Party set out to thrash every other German party, to employ both the heavy Teuton bludgeon and the sweet Teuton sugar-cookie. By being intermittently sweet to the people he intermittently slugged, the Realmleader has made himself what he is today. Last week he asked Germans to vote overwhelmingly once more, on March 29, that they are satisfied...
...Sirs: Adding to TIME'S pithy paragraph pertaining to posthumous phonographic poesies [TIME, Sept. 30] may I suggest for a bellylaugh, Jack Kapp's Decca platter, End of Public Enemy No. 1, reverse side being Bruno Hauptmann's Fate, wherein the singer refers to the Teuton in the past tense. He fails to reveal however, whether Mr. H. becomes a celestial or takes one of Hermes' personally conducted tours. Me, think Buck Nation should have consulted Bruno's wishes in the matter...
After the name Whali had been substituted with Teuton neatness and dispatch, the ten dead were dumped overboard, bloodstains scrubbed, everything made shipshape. Meanwhile, even though the Chinese freighter's cargo was chiefly coal, she could not steam to California without taking on food. In almost any port on the China coast she would be recognized. Shrewd Captain Taudien decided to put her in at the Japanese port of Dairen on the nether tip of Manchukuo. Clumsy, he ran her aground...