Word: teufelsdroch
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...satisfactory than any work that can be done in office. Newspaper work of today is largely anonymous, and that fact is discouraging to those that would delight in the sound of their own names. But let a man select for his guiding thought the half cynical toast of old Teufelsdroch: Die Sacheder Armen in Gottes und Teufels Namen...
...great importance placed upon recitations pure and simple, the practice of "skinning" in all its forms has grown up. The writer remembers only one course in his whole college experience from which he got any real pleasure. With this one exception he feels that he can say with Teufelsdroch, "my teachers were hide-bound pedants...
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