Foreign News: Goose-Flesh

For the past two weeks, Germans throughout the length and breadth of Germany have taken an absorbing interest in their newspapers. Supercilious Frauen would adjust their thick pince-nez, glance at the headlines, shudder, read something else, return to the headlines, shudder again, put down the paper, go away, come back, look at the headline once more and again shudder, then plunge into the story.

FraulËin, with minds as sticky as chewing gum, giggled and gasped and choked and exclaimed aloud in horror.

Sensitive Jüngling had chronic attacks of gooseflesh. At a certain beer garden...

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