Word: karakul
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...from Stalin's birthplace, one George Papashvily was born. His father, being a man of great foresight, taught him two trades (sword-making and ornamental-leather work), and gave him three dogs, a colt and a pet bear. Thus schooled, George Papashvily, penniless and wearing a karakul hat, arrived in New York, having traveled steerage on a Greek freighter. "lit your position, frankly," said a Turkish shipmate, "I would kill myself." "My God," said the man in the employment office. "A swordpointer!" He got George a job as a dishwasher...
...into the Café Vaterland. Its menu was as ample and German as the Fräulein who handled it. I ordered, in English, beer and Apfelstrudel, and asked for the local daily newspaper. I got the Deutscher Beobachter, with a curt 'Bitte.' Near by, three American karakul-pelt buyers were deep in wartime prices. They spoke English. Everyone else in the room spoke German. On the wall a German poster announced a UFA film, Wenn der Hahn kräht. All around were pictures of Germany...