Word: trier
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Bray, George August, Jr. of 706 Ash Street, Winnetka; New Trier High, Winnetka. Calhamer, Allan Brian of 518 North Spring Street, La Grange; Lyons Township High. Emerson, Kenneth of 806 West Main Street, Urbans: Urbana High. Finch, Frank Hershel, Jr. of 504 West Michigan Avenue, Urbana: University High, Urbana...
...Trier of Spice...
...born (1818) in the ancient archbishopric of Trier. From his ancestry (which included generations of rabbis and Talmudic scholars) he undoubtedly inherited his gift for subtle and untiring disputation. When Karl was six Father Hirschel Marx, a lawyer, took the family to be baptized in the Protestant Church. Karl became an evangelical atheist...
Marx's only lasting comforts were algebra (his favorite form of escape) and Jenny. Protectively, she used to call him "my big child." Once, when he briefly returned to Trier, he wrote: "I have been making a daily pilgrimage to the old Westphalen house . . . which used to shelter my sweetheart. And every day people ask me right and left about the quondam 'most beautiful girl' in Trier, the 'Queen of the ball.' It's damned agreeable for a man to find that his wife lives on as an 'enchanted princess...
Schwarzschild's indictment is most effective when describing Marx's personal and political life from 1818 to 1883. Here is Marx the boy taken to a church in Trier, in the recently Prussianized Rhineland, and baptized a Lutheran. His father, the first lawyer in an interminable line of distinguished rabbis, admired Prussia and its official religion. Here is Marx the future socialist, unsocially shunning his school fellows while his mental acrobatics charm Ludwig von Westphalen, a much older man of a much higher social position. Marx later repaid Westphalen for this early interest by marrying his daughter, Jenny...