Word: delighting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...modern Pumper-nickel that Meyer-Foerster calls Sachsen-Karlsburg; in its glimpses of the life of the students at Heidelberg; and, above all, in its two sentimentalists--the old tutor, Juettner, dreaming over the university to which he is to return, and the young prince, idealizing in the boyish delight of new freedom, all that he finds there. It is German, too, when it turns the old sentimentalist into the tipsy sharer in student routs and makes the young prince believe that Kaethie's practised smile signifies so much that is personal and intimate. Perhaps it is most German when...
...before his death a volume of fifteen essays and addresses was received by his friends, and a translation of the treatise of Vitruvius on ancient architecture was rapidly nearing completion, most of which had been read to a small circle of his friends, for their criticism and to their delight...