Word: flaxen
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Still, at Heidelberg, as elsewhere, life is not without its crosses, especially if you are a student freshly matriculated. You may be strolling along the narrow Hauptstrasse-no German town is complete without a Hauptstrasse-engaged in confine your new impressions or in thinking of the flaxen-haired Gretchen who served you that pretzel and that last glass of beer, when, on a sudden your meditations are rudely dispersed and your thoughts brought to earth again. Looking up, you find you have brushed against a man who appears for all the world like a battered veteran of the wars...
Sleeps Getta of the flaxen hair...
There Getta, with soft flaxen hair...
...rushed wildly around to Brighton St. As I turned the corner, I ran into a friend, who accosted me, "Hallo, old boy! I thought you had reformed." "Troja fuit," I merely replied, feeling a little ashamed of giving up so soon; but a minute later, when Carl's flaxen-haired Ganymede brought me a schooner, all shame had left me, and alone by myself I drank down a toast which my classmate who met me at the car would probably translate in this way: "Reform to the other side of the Styx...