Konrad Adenauer
Konrad Adenauer (January 5, 1876 - April 19, 1967) was a German statesman.Lord Mayor of Cologne, 1917 to 1933.
He was first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949-1963, a period which spans most of the preliminary phase of the Cold War. In this period, West Germany was politically separated from East Germany, the DDR. Adenauer was a co-founder of the CDU party.
Adenauer got marriage proposals into his eighties. He used to tell his secretary, "Put them in the non-aggression pact file."
nobles then not being at all like the chance nobility of our time, which
marquis is no more a count, nor the son of a viscount a baron, than a son
finds profit in that arrangement.
My ancestors were unusually tall, bony, hairy, violent and vigorous.
according to a legend of which he was proud, all the leaves of the forest
superb sight to see those two giants straddling their huge horses.
Now, toward the midwinter of that year, 1764, the frosts were excessive,
howled from sunset to sunrise, and robbed the stables.
And soon a rumor began to circulate. People talked of a colossal wolf
woman's arm, strangled all the watch dogs in the district, and even come
they had felt his breath, and that it made the flame of the lights
out any more after nightfall. The darkness seemed haunted by the image
they brought together all the gentlemen of the country to a great hunt.
They beat the forests and searched the coverts in vain; they never met
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for him.
Finally, one night he stole into the pigpen of the Chateau d'Arville and
insult and a defiance. They took their strong bloodhounds, used to
with rage.
From dawn until the hour when the empurpled sun descended behind the
along a lane bordered with hedges, and they marvelled that their skill as
with a mysterious fear.
The elder said:
"That beast is not an ordinary one. You would say it had a mind like a
pray some priest to pronounce the words which are needed."
Then they were silent.
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