Word: trinken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LIKE MOST GERMANS, Bruno Hauptmann enjoyed trinken und grosse Cigarren with compatriots on special occasions. This 1932 New Year's Eve party occurred ten months after the Lindbergh kidnapping. Host Hauptmann had neither sought nor found work in that time...
...frequented the Hausmann brewery in Madison. Its bar is now in the new Rathskeller, a strictly masculine sanctuary on whose walls are painted Heidelberg students brandishing steins, a fat monk on a wine cask, a bartender with Speise-und-Getränke Karten, a motto: Des Lebens Sonnenschein ist trinken, lieben, fröhlich sein ("Life's sunshine is to drink, to love, to be merry"). At first the Rathskeller had another bit of Munich realism - a six-inch layer of sawdust on the floor - but it got in people's shoes, was removed. Last week the Rathskeller...
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