HIndenburg again

[William Ryan]

Adding the word "general" might add more confusion. He was in fact a 
field marshall from 1914 onwards, the time of his greatest fame and 
popularity, and President of Germany from 1925 to 1934. Possibly the 
most widely seen pictorial image of him, complete with jowls, is on the 
postage stamps of that era, and in fact still in use with local 
overstamps in German-controlled Alsace and Poland in 1940 (see the 
Wikipedia article on Hindenberg).
Will Ryan

On 07/05/2012 07:06, Robert Chandler wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Many thanks to everyone who responded.  As is so often the case, there was far more to consider than I had imagined.
>
> One of the images on the net was particularly helpful.
>
> As the decades pass, the number of points one might choose to annotate inevitably increases.  In this case, though, I'd rather not provide a note, since the reference to Hindenburg seems incidental and I don't think he is going to be mentioned again.  But I don't see any harm in slipping in the word "General".  It will stop anyone being sidetracked by airships and I don't see the addition as in any way disruptive.
>
> Here is the passage as it now stands:
>
> As for his face, it would make Rembrandt lay down his brush and say, �There�s nothing left for me to do.  Nature�s done it all already.�  And it truly does make more sense to photograph his face than to draw it.  He has a leonine forehead, dense overhanging brows, heavy folds around his mouth, a large nose, the hanging jowls of General Hindenburg and bulging, yellowy-grey eyes that are at once wan and inflamed.
>
> All the best,
>
> Robert
>
> Robert Chandler, 42 Milson Road, London, W14 OLD
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