Word: sauerbraten
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...Balance Wheel refers to a heavy-witted Pennsylvania Dutchman who is no more the hero of a novel than the dumpling in a dish of Sauerbraten. He just happens to sit in the middle of the concoction. His three brothers-a steel-fisted money-grabber, a radical of the Debs persuasion, a soft-fingered esthete-are all pulling in different directions, threatening to tear the family business apart. Loyal Charles, the balance wheel, tries to keep them all geared together, and the concern, a tool company, going straight down the middle of the road...
...cellists sawed their way through Brahms and Beethoven while writers on the local German-language newspaper argued politics and were kept from quarreling by matriarchal Grossmama ("her strength lay in her gentleness"). At mealtimes, as many as 30 sat around Grossmama's huge table to eat her Sauerbraten, Hasenpjeffer, herring salad and Torten and Kaffee stollen. "We had a gemütlich upbringing," says Traubel. "Our theory was 'lucky is the person who is happy...
...lumbering and slow. Following Viennese custom, they included one long, serious number - an allegory that chugs back through history making as many stops as a milk train. Their advisers should have warned them that the Vienna dear to U. S. hearts is one of fluffy Schlagobers, not heavy Sauerbraten...