Word: teutonic
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...Architect Warren did not consider the building complete. He wanted an inscription: Furore Teutonico Diruta: Dono Americano Restituta ("Destroyed by Teuton Fury; Restored by American Gift"). On the ground that the inscription was "likely to breed hatred," Architect Warren was overruled...
...many years stocky, shock-headed Metropolitan Tenor Giovanni Martinelli nursed a secret ambition to sing Tristan, most glamorous, most gut-busting of German opera roles. But in the days when Martinelli's voice was at its sweetest, Metropolitan directors always chose a throatier Teuton for the job. Last week at the Chicago Opera, 54-year-old Veteran Martinelli finally got his chance. Playing opposite buxom Kirsten Flagstad's bosom, his white hair covered with a blond wig, Tenor Martinelli sang his part without a misplaced guttural. But between towering Soprano Flagstad and the booming orchestra led by Flagstad...
...whole frontier fortification is called Siegfried. Adolf Hitler named the part which faces France the Limes, for Limes Germanicus, the old Roman wall and earthworks that ran along the same position. But Limes Germanicus was built against the Germans, to keep the Teuton barbarians out of the Roman Empire...
...only man in British officialdom who smells a Teuton in the one-by-one disappearance of four of His Majesty's newest war planes, Scotland Yarder Richardson ambles after clews with the skew of a Punch barfly, leans archly on an emblematic umbrella, stickles an uncertain industrialist with the crack: "With your genius for sitting on either side of the fence, you ought to be in the Government." As upsetting to Scotland Yard tradition as he is to the belief that the British are essentially humorless, Actor Richardson seemed the likeliest character yet to carry on for justice...
What public opinion there is in Poland is undoubtedly strongly anti-German and pro-French. No love has ever been lost between Pole and Teuton, who have fought no less than 60 wars in the last 1,000 years. The student demonstrations could have been, and probably were, genuine outpourings of indignation. But suspicious correspondents had their own ideas of why they were not quickly and effectively suppressed. They suspected that Colonel Beck, now entertaining the Foreign Minister of one of the axis powers, looked not unfavorably upon riots against the other power in the hope that they might persuade...