Word: klause
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...Student Peter Klaus had spent a comfortable winter. Now, not even the peculiar terrors of spring could faze him. Opportunity had come to him one cold day last fall: as he was beating his way homeward from Berlin University, a coal truck (from the nearby Berlin-Zehlendorf coal yards) swung sharply around a corner and six briquettes fell at Klaus's feet. He hastily tucked away his precious find, glowing with the thought of hot soup and a heated room that night. Next morning he was back at the same corner with a burlap bag. For the rest...
Music Lesson. In Hanover, Germany, newspaper Critic Klaus Wagner was sentenced to a week's hard labor with a rubble-clearing squad for "disrespect for his elders," i.e., writing a sneering review of an opera performance...
...Santa Klaus is the Dutch name for St. Nicholas, a Fourth Century bishop of Myra in Lycia. The patron saint of Russia, and of thieves, and boys & girls, he traditionally championed the weak against the strong, the poor against the rich. In 1941 the pseudo-cultural Ossewa Brand-wag (Ox Wagon) society denounced him as "a foreign importation unsuited to the ideals of the Afrikaners." Possibly because both Santa and Smuts wear white beards and benignity, the O.B. suggested that South African Christmas gifts should be brought by one Oupa (Grandfather) Voortrekker in an ox wagon...
...KLAUS NETTER Sao Paulo, Brazil...
Many of these tales have been told before in other lands, in other tongues. Ali Baba, Aladdin, Big Klaus and Little Klaus and many others are here in naturalized form. But the background of these Russian stories is the vast steppes, the dark conifer forests, the softly falling snow. They are dominated by strange creations of the Slav mind-Baba Yaga (the witch who lives in a little hut that stands on hen's legs), the Sea King (who rises from the depths to enslave human beings), Zhar-ptitsa (the Firebird), Koshchey the Deathless, who is really "little father...