Word: lenchen
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Because of his intrigues and his intolerance, he lost most of his friends; the only people outside his family whose affections he kept were Lenchen Demuth, the Marxes' lifelong, devoted servant (who could handle Marx even in his blackest moods) and Friedrich Engels, whom one acquaintance described as "the little Pomeranian." Engels, first with his father's money, then with his own profits as a textile manufacturer, paid Marx's bills. (In a letter to Engels Marx wrote: "I have worked out a sure scheme for getting some money out of your...
...first secretary of the legation in Peking, in the foreign office in Rome, as delegate to the League of Nations, at the San Remo conference, in London, Luxemburg, Copenhagen, Berlin and on vacations in Venice. Lighthearted, sophisticated, well-bred, he laughed at the remarks of his German sweetheart, Lenchen, who was a good girl by her lights, which were occasionally dim ; at the practical jokes he played with U.S. Ambassador Hugh Gibson on the League of Nations (Varè invented an imaginary country, Zembla); at the grotesque reformers who flocked to Geneva with their crazy plans for saving Europe...
...livered, undramatic. He took his Ph. D., fought no duels. He married the daughter of a high government official. His interest always lay in philosophy and the proletariat. After journalistic ventures in revolutionary twilight zones in Cologne, Paris, Brussels, he fled with his wife, three children and faithful servant "Lenchen," to London, world's warmest haven for refugees...
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