Word: bora
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minnie Maddern Fiske, 64, was bora in New Orleans, daughter of Thomas W. Davey, theatrical manager. Aged 3, she appeared in Richard III; aged 15, she was starred with her own company. She has played Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Becky Sharp, Salvation Nell, many an Ibsen heroine. In 1890 she married theatrical director Harrison Grey Fiske who still stages her productions. Eight years ago she gave up tragic, wearing parts, but later rallied to play Ibsen's Ghosts. She wears no real furs or feathers, eats no flesh. In 1925 she said: "Society is so organized...
...fact that we were advised not to undertake it by the Italian authorities. The plane had dual controls and one of its features is that it handles so easily you could land on a dime. As a matter of fact, one time coming down unexpectedly into a bora, as the strong winds of northern Italy are called, we landed within sixty feet. The Yankee Doodle carries ten gallons of gasoline and that gives it a range of about 475 miles...
...amazement a glaringly inaccurate statement in TIME Nov. 8. I refer to your reference to "one Katrina Borah" as Luther's second wife. Glib ignorance of an elementary historical fact which affected a great human movement so profoundly as did the marriage of Martin Luther to Katharina von Bora the Protestant Reformation reflects no credit on the reputation of pretensions of a. magazine such as yours (sic.). Katharina was Luther's first and only wife. His marriage to her, being that of a former priest to a former nun, raised a fury of opposition against him and against...
TIME reported that Senator Borah was interested in tracing his ancestry to Martin Luther's wife's family. To TIME's Political Editor a mild reprimand for his ignorance of Church history. Katharina von Bora was, indeed, a fine woman. According to McGiffert,- she escaped from a convent, by the aid of Luther, who endeavored to secure a husband for her, upon which she intimated, anticipating Priscilla Mullins, that she would prefer Luther himself...
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