Word: kuchen
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When finally given time to speak by Mayor Vellucci, Steven Van Kuchen announced, "This is not, as some people seem to think, the late night ego tripping ha-ha show. The problem here is Cronin. Ever since this council passed the rent control law in September he has done everything in his power to stop...
...takes a heap o' birthday cake to commemorate a man's 96th birthday. And so when 250 friends of John Nance Garner gathered at his Uvalde, Texas, home, they thoughtfully brought along a two-foot-high, German-style Baum-kuchen (tree cake), and two smaller ones decorated with the six flags that have flown over Texas. Cactus Jack eyed them. He studied his neighbors, many of whom can't rightly remember the days when he was Franklin Roosevelt's Vice President, a job he liked to refer to as "a spare tire on the automobile...
...Mercedes 600 (U.S. price: $23,000), adding that the 300 SE (around $10,000) was snappy enough. And just the other day he was seen waiting patiently in line at a Bonn pastry shop to buy two pieces of cake to take home for the afternoon Kaffee und Kuchen with his wife, Luise. But a Chancellor cannot lead the simple life forever, and der Dicke has made his first concession. He has reluctantly agreed to have an official residence built in the park of the Palais Schaumburg for $250,000, complete with swimming pool...
Late each afternoon, villagers of tiny Beutelsbach (pop. 900), in Germany's Rems valley climb the twisting road to the hedge-bound estate of Landgut Burg. Their hosts, American undergraduates studying at Stanford University's experimental overseas branch, serve coffee and kuchen, talk exuberantly in often sprained, sometimes fractured, German. Last week Beutelsbachers were greeting a new batch of Stanford students, the second to arrive in Germany since the 30-acre campus was opened last summer...
...France and Germany these days they are trying to receive the family with laws and slogans. "Travail, Famille, Patrie!" cries Marshal Petain. "Kinder, Kirche, Kuchen!" goes for the German hausfrau. Family sense has always been important in these countries, and they usually fall back upon it in a time of crisis, when it gives them strength...