Word: knackwurst
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...Louvre, has the Pennsylvania Dutch itch. In one of his best vitriol-blue shirts, white-haired Collector Barnes was one of those who went last week to the little town of Norristown, Pa., to inspect an exhibition of antiquated German-American knickknacks. In the barrel-vaulted attic of its knackwurst-colored Town Hall, Norristown held its annual Antiques Show, one of a chain of country-fair dealers' exhibitions that periodically sweep the towns of the Pennsylvania Dutch 'country like an epidemic of German measles...
...their fangs the people seem to forget or to ignore the logic of the "outrages." What did the newspaper editors of the nation think Hitler would do when our Navy was told to fire on his ships? Smile benignly on us, say "danke schoen" and turn back to his knackwurst? If we're going to shoot, so's he; two can play at that game. He has nothing at all to gain from letting American ships loaded with supplies pass by his undersea blockade unharmed. America is unneutral already; sinking our merchant marine won't make us any more...
...Germans and Austrians the word Lied means simply song. To the rest of the world it means a particular kind of song, as peculiarly Austro-German as Knackwurst. In Italy, where a beautiful voice is regarded as a princely possession, songs are likely to have melodies constructed to show off beautiful voices. In France, where Art is for epicures, songs are likely to be skillful, titillating and sophisticated. But the Austro-German Lied is a miniature music-drama in which words, melody and accompaniment play equal parts. More important than the contour of its melody is the dramatic mood...