Word: rhenish
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...Pope he leads a merry life, merry life He's free from trouble, care and strife, care and strife He drinks the best of Rhenish wine I would the Pope's gay life were mine...
Back of that is his birth (1818) in Rhenish Prussian Treves, son of a Jewish lawyer, with a long line of learned rabbis behind the lawyer. His years at the universities of Bonn and Berlin were studious, lazy-livered, undramatic. He took his Ph. D., fought no duels. He married the daughter of a high government official. His interest always lay in philosophy and the proletariat. After journalistic ventures in revolutionary twilight zones in Cologne, Paris, Brussels, he fled with his wife, three children and faithful servant "Lenchen," to London, world's warmest haven for refugees...
...planning to use the films merely to round out the material offered in a more formal manner Professor Burkhard has made a wise decision. The views of beautiful Germany will make more convincing the impassioned descriptions of Rhenish scenery which occur so frequently throughout Germanic literature and which by their very reiteration often arouse an incident skepticism in the un travelled student. Perhaps more difficult to grasp than the appearance of the country position of the student to interpret side of a nation is an understanding of the nature of its people. A language as difficult for the average American...
...conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, by some able critics considered the world's best symphony conductor after Toscanini; Rudolf Ganz, Swiss pianist, composer, onetime (1921-26) conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; Sergei Alexandrovitch Koussevitzky, Russian conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Friedrich Wilhelm August Stock. Rhenish composer, conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra...
...practices in the 30 nations which have adopted the metric system. It was found that only two older units of measure were in common use in any of these countries. In the Balearic Isles the inhabitants still use the old Spanish ounce, and in parts of Germany the old Rhenish inch is still used in lumber measurement...