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SCHMIDT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
German statesman who served as chancellor of Germany (born in 1918)
Synonyms:
Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt; Helmut Schmidt; Schmidt
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
national leader; solon; statesman (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)
Context examples:
When Mackintosh's Magazine published "The Palmist," featuring it with decorations by Berthier and with two pictures by Wenn, Hermann von Schmidt forgot that he had called the verses obscene.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Hermann Von Schmidt, Marian's husband, had likewise been interviewed.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And to dinner Martin came, making himself agreeable with the fat wholesale butcher and his fatter wife—important folk, they, likely to be of use to a rising young man like Hermann Von Schmidt.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Hermann von Schmidt chuckled in his little repair shop and decided to order a new lathe.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The latter, by virtue of a twisted crank-hanger, required repairing, and, as a matter of friendliness with his future brother-in-law, he sent it to Von Schmidt's shop.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And in his heart of hearts Martin understood the situation only too well, as he leaned back and gloated at Von Schmidt's head, in fancy punching it well-nigh off of him, sending blow after blow home just right—the chuckle-headed Dutchman!
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He summoned them before him in apparitional procession: Bernard Higginbotham arm in arm with Mr. Butler, Hermann von Schmidt cheek by jowl with Charley Hapgood, and one by one and in pairs he judged them and dismissed them—judged them by the standards of intellect and morality he had learned from the books.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
