Word: borussian
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Frantically popular is Adolf Hitler with millions of Germans but not with the aristocratic Student Korps. These correspond at German universities to the superior English youths who have been to Eton. Last week a proud array of Old Heidelberg's primest campus snobs, the Saxo-Borussian Korps, trembled before a State prosecutor who charged them with the following high misdemeanors...
Firstly, on the night of May 21, when all Saxo-Borussians should have been listening to the nationwide broadcast of Adolf Hitler's speech to the German Reichstag, they gave a champagne initiation banquet. Secondly, while the Realmleader was still uttering his two-hour discourse, they left their Korps house, proceeded with levity through the streets of Heidelberg and noisily entered a restaurant full of devout listeners to the broadcast, one Saxo-Borussian pretending to use a champagne bottle as a trumpet. Thirdly, the Saxo-Borussians, amid much loud discussion, made a distinction between the correct way of eating...
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