Word: wanderlied
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Probably the best friend Luxembourg has is the U. S., though few U. S. citizens have ever been there. Those who go there find it an expression of their most sentimental instincts: a tiny Switzerland with lofty mountains and beautiful valleys through which wander the Sure and the Alzette. Its tolerance extends to all sects and races, including Jews. On Sunday mornings a band plays in the main square of the capital and the people stroll round & round. The highest officer in the Army is a captain. Prince Felix's proudest possession is The Public Papers and Addresses...
...down to one-foot size and doing away with two of them when he finds they are growing back to normal, the shaven-pated Dr. Thorkel is himself done in by the remaining three midgets. These murderers of the "greatest biologist in the world" regain their original stature and wander back to civilization, two of them finding true love...
...Roosevelt have tried that and proved that it can't be done." Private business representing production for profit instead of production for use, said he, has failed. The people must assume the responsibility of running the economic system. There is no law, declared Mr. Krueger, that we must wander for 40 years in the wilderness. "Many still cast their eyes backward and long for the 'good old days' when Capitalist industry still provided opportunity and an increased standard of living." Comparing back-lookers to dachshunds, he quoted: There was a little dachshund once So long...
...thrilling chord, and the four musicians were bowing their appreciation of the audience's very audible approval. At first Vag felt cheated--the music should never have stopped; he should have been allowed to continue musing in this delicious manner. Finally, he forced himself to leave his chair and wander outside--the night air was crisp, the snow was an iridescent mass of white, and a haunting theme kept running through his sleepy mind. Vag went into hibernation to wait for the next Stradivarius concert on March first...
...editorial rash that blotched the Steinbeck book. Cleared of excrescences, the residue is the great human story which made thousands of people, who damned the novel's phony conclusions, read it. It is the saga of an authentic U. S. farming family who lose their land. They wander, they suffer, but they endure. They are never quite defeated, and their survival is itself a triumph...