Word: bavarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judas Had the Place to Himself. Schoenberner also found two other important examples of the gap between appearance and reality. One was the result of a visit to Oberammergau, where Bavarian peasants performed their world-famed Passion Play. Schoenberner discovered that the peasant who played the role of Christ was thereby enabled to charge tourists twice as much rent for his rooms as any of his followers (Judas, it was whispered, couldn't find a roomer at any price; and St. John, who was the handsomest of the Apostles, finally eloped to the U.S. with a rich American widow...
...Braun for his mistress, and somewhat embarrassedly concealed the fact for 15 years. Wrote Roper: "There is a somewhat macabre contrast between the revolutionary nihil ism of his doctrines . . . and the back ground of coziness and triviality from which they proceeded: teacups and cream buns, cuckoo clocks and Bavarian bric-a-brac...
Rudolf Hess, now officially pronounced an amnesia victim, was the most morose-looking of all, his green-tinged skin drawn tightly about his cadaverous skull. He tried to pass the time by reading a book of Bavarian folk tales, but was much disturbed by stomach cramps, which made him rock back & forth on his bench. (Unimpressed, his U.S. doctor advised him to keep rocking.) The only display of what the Germans call Galgenhumor (humor of the gallows) came from ex-Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach. Said he, as he was served dinner in his cell: "If the victuals continue...
Died. Archbishop Joseph Schrembs, 79, Bavarian-born, tireless preacher (some Sundays, five sermons totaling as much as eight hours), hymn-writing head of the Roman Catholic diocese of Cleveland, outspoken participant in secular affairs (he opposed Prohibition as "fanaticism ); after three years illness in Cleveland...
...being made, and anyway, railroads were not his business, while food was. Said the Frenchman: France would start meat deliveries soon, but not to Berlin. The Russian sniffed. The American recalled that U.S. authorities had already delivered 9,000 tons of dressed beef to the Russians at the Bavarian frontier. The Russian sniffed again. The matter was not settled...