Word: whitest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Armistice stopped him. Though a Feldmarschall, he never wore a general's uniform and pickelhaube (spiked helmet) but always the broad black fur cap of the Death's Head Hussars, whose colonel-in-chief he was. He never, even for the sake of camouflage, rode anything but the whitest of horses. Unlike Ludendorff, who now is going crazy, he never proclaimed himself a God-inspired military genius, or even took personal credit for his armies' triumphs. Almost feminine in grace, he of all the German generals never failed to kiss the hand of his close friend and chief, Kaiser Wilhelm...
...Biblical tamarisk manna is not to be confused with the manna of the manna ash tree (Fraxinns ornus) cultivated commercially on the frassinetti (plantations) around Palermo, Sicily. The manna ash are the trees visitors in Palermo in early summer see blooming with clusters of whitest flowers...
Premier Poincaré, the great War President of France, one of the whitest whiskered of European statesmen, discovered last week that in the secret code of the French Foreign Office he is referred to as Barbichon (meaning, in boudoir "conversation, "The Little Bearded One" or "Little Whiskers...
...rubber balls. Young Wetzel turned red. Nobility curled thick lips over lupine teeth; articulated his taunts very clearly, so that the gallery could hear him say that the club must be called the Red-White Club because it admitted to its tournaments, on equal terms with nobility's whitest cockades, such raw cuts of butchers' meat as that which now faced him across the net. Wetzel said nothing. He was so angry now that he could not speak, nor could he see the ball. Nobility won the set 9-7 and changed courts for the third, remarking...
...conductors, appeared for the last time this season as leader of the New York Symphony at the fourth concert for young people. Genial, loquacious, he said good-by to his audience, told its members that when they were still freezing in New York he would be wearing the whitest of flannels in Sicily...