Word: gemsbart
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...President Paul von Hindenburg went to Dietramszell, Bavaria, to shoot at chamois. Attired in mackintosh and with a gemsbart (chamois mane) stuck jauntily behind his green hunting hat, he was delighted when he brought down a buck. Not so delighted was he to learn that the Bavarian cabinet of Minister President Dr. Heinrich Held, who has been in office since 1924, had resigned after having failed to effect a higher slaughter tax. The bill would have added $2.000.000 annually to Bavaria's income by imposing a tax on all cattle butchered. There seemed to be little reason to believe that...
Waiting for them at the gate was Prince Ernst Rüiger von Starhemberg, a Gemsbart (beard of a chamois) jutting proudly from the back of his green felt hat, his grey and green hunter's coat tightly bone-buttoned...
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