Word: wanderlied
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...real bed. Most are solemn and docile, apparently cowed by their environment, except when there is an excuse for a fiesta and they can gulp caña (a potent, sugar-based liquor). Then, a missionary says, "a young Indian will start dancing with a girl and they will wander off. After a week they will come back to the community and announce they want to get married...
...returned to New York and won a thunderous sentimental welcome; the next year he announced he was pushing off for Texas. "Barbirolli belongs to a world of music which knows no barrier of language, color or creed," wrote an enthusiastic English critic. "He is destined to wander it till the end of time...
...going down to Penn for the football game and it's a nice day, wander ever to the rugby field Saturday about 2 p.m. for a few laughs. The Crimson's second team takes on Boston's excellent 'B' squad while the Crimson's first fifteen "book...
...marriage of a daughter as well as death benefits. The company explains the value of insurance with short feature films, primarily for rural audiences, that have simple plots, amateur talent, and sound tracks in the 13 main Indian languages. Itinerant bards, telling stories and singing insurance commercials, wander from village to village. Everywhere possible, in signs, posters, newspaper ads and leaflets, appears the company's symbol: a pair of hands shielding the flame of a peasant oil lamp and a sacred quotation in Sanskrit that means "Your welfare is my responsibility...
...tour, and to gibe wittily at the shoddy products of the rival literary capital in New York. On the same morning a junior clerk might receive an elaborate good morning from Longfellow and an impersonal purchase order from the shy Hawthorne. In either case, the great man would soon wander to the rear of the store to join the crowd in Fields's cluttered office...