Word: gulden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sword" is Goethe's description of the child performing for Europe's nobility and dazzling Kapellmeister with feats of improvisation and phonographic memory. There is the prodigy as meal ticket: Wolfgang and his gifted sister Nannerl carted from court to court by Leopold for a few gulden, ducats, florins, pocket watches and snuffboxes. If a theater poster announced an eight-year old Wunderkind even though Mozart was nine, who was Leopold to correct the error? Such was the perishable nature of his merchandise...
...York Yankees acquired Larry Milbourne, infielder, and a player to be named later from the Seattle Mariners for Brad Gulden, catcher, and an undisclosed amount of cash...