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Going to “throw a scare” into Uncle Sam.
The German dearly loves a masquerade. Mr. Bartholdt was parading the “German Vote” in Congress in January, 1915, with the idea of “Throwing a scare into Uncle Sam.”
Going to “throw a scare” into Uncle Sam.
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“THOSE FLIPPANT AMERICANS, who were drowned on the Lusitania.” —Cologne Gazette.
The semi-official Cologne Gazette added insult to injury when it characterized the one hundred and twenty-five American men, women and children lost on the “Lusitania,” as “Those Flippant Americans.”