Word: welt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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GUSTAV MAHLER: ICH BIN DER WELT ABHANDEN GEKOMMEN (Contralto Kerstin Thorborg and Vienna Philharmonic; Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia). A beautiful item added to the meagre list of available Mahler discs...
There is no reason why confidence should again be deposited in a man so grotesquely visionary that he takes no account of his decisive defeats and asks for permission to butt his head against the wall that raised such a welt on it last time. Henry P. Fletcher may sound a little too panicky and self-righteous in his protests over the use of soldier boys in the torchlight rally preceding the President's speech. But his objections to the warmed-over panacea are sound. Liberty Leaguer Shouse wins the same commendation by essentially the same stand. And Herbert Hoover...
...blue, grey or brown. But, warns the committee, "Al Smith's turn on the New Deal . . . has made the brown derby very unpopular.'' Champagne coats, designed like the dinner jackets, come in blue, quaker grey, bisque, green and champagne, may be worn with black welt-seamed trousers...
...sixth round, the cut on Jeby's cheek was an ugly purple welt, his large, hooked nose was bleeding and everyone in the crowd of 12,000 except his managers knew he was a beaten man. At the beginning of the seventh, they counseled him, cruelly, to "go on in." Stumbling, Jeby tried to obey. Brouillard, still fresh after six rounds of arduous butchery, smashed his ribs and then his face with jolting lefts. Jeby stepped backwards, staggered, slipped slowly down to one knee, then fell flat on the canvas, face down. When Referee Pete Hartley's count...
decreed as the national anthem: Deutschland, Deutschland liber Alles, liber Alles in der Welt! Of this no hard & fast translation is possible, since Germans themselves have meant several different things by iiber Alles since the words were written...