Crossword-Solution: SPASS 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The high school teacher Spinoza Spass--the clown of the Cafe Kloesschen--had wrapped a Siegfried-costume around his belly, and given himself a Goethe haircut.

Perhaps he would have reached Mechenmal if the perennial fourth-year pupil Spinoza Spass hadn't suddenly grasped his hump as if with a hook.

Spinoza Spass grinned comfortably and maliciously into the monkey-shaped, longingly apathetic face, as he propelled the little despairing Kohn like a weight slowly through the sunny spring air.

The gaunt, pale senior Paulus snatched the tiny unfortunate boy from the venemously peering Spass and threatened to beat up anyone who annoyed the lop-sided little Kohn further.

But the only answer which he vouchsafed to his detractors was:— “Und lasst mir doch mein volles Glass, Und lasst mir meinen guten Spass, Mit unsrer schlechten Zeit! Wer bei dem Weine singt und lacht, Den thut, ihr Herrn, nicht in die Acht! Ein Kind ist Fröhligkeit.”(15) Wilhelm Müller evidently felt that when words are not deeds, or do not lead to deeds, silence is more worthy of a man than speech.