Word: lebkuchen
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...flowed as the first visitors crossed the Wall. Grandparents sized up snowsuited two-year-olds they had never seen except in photographs. "Does the baby meet the family standards?" asked one proud West German mother. "Ja, schon," wept the grandmother. Although the West Berliners arrived laden with everything from Lebkuchen to long underwear, not all the gifts came from their side of the Wall. One East German lad blew a year's savings on two geese, a sweater and a bottle of brandy to welcome his long-immured relatives...
...fabrics. A convivial soul,'he can work 16 hours a day and still find time for champagne suppers, Viennese songs, beautiful women. His wife is a New York Beegle. He keeps eight shepherd dogs in the country, and gives two Christmas parties a year complete with tinseled trees, lebkuchen and. champagne, one for his architects' office, one for his scenic studio. Soviet fathers have not forgotten his design for the Neva bridge, and Joseph Urban was one of the eight foreign architects invited to submit designs for the preat Palace of the Soviets in Moscow. The red plaster...
...pieces of imported German Lebkuchen (that's cake, in case your education has been neglected) come in lovely decorated German tins...
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