Crossword-Solution: PFAFF 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

The weight, amounting to thirty pounds, reached the ground before us, and the balloon, thus lightened, came softly to the ground between Wichtenbech and Hanover, after having run twenty-five leagues in five and a half hours.” After this ascent Robertson became acquainted with some savants of Hamburg, and amongst others with Professor Pfaff, who was interested in aerial travelling as a means of settling certain meteorological problems.

Denkt nur, den Schmuck, für Gretchen angeschafft, Den hat ein Pfaff hinweggerafft! Die Mutter kriegt das Ding zu schauen Gleich fängt’s ihr heimlich an zu grauen, Die Frau hat gar einen feinen Geruch, Schnuffelt immer im Gebetbuch Und riecht’s einem jeden Möbel an, Ob das Ding heilig ist oder profan; Und an dem Schmuck da spürt sie’s klar, Daß dabei nicht viel Segen war.

The four Germans who had neither stared nor even appeared aware of her existence, talked cheerfully across the table in a general exchange that included tall Fräulein Pfaff smiling her horse-smile--Miriam provisionally called it--behind the tea-urn, as chairman.

Jimmie's Lied brought the piano solos to an end, and Fräulein Pfaff after a little speech of criticism and general encouragement asked, to Miriam's intense delight, for the singing.

She speculated as to how long it would take for her to deliver them up to Fräulein Pfaff with this notorious stumbling-block removed.