Word: eine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next afternoon he broke two sticks. One, during the Beethoven Ninth, third movement, flew into the audience and was recovered after a mild scramble by a lady who put it in her handbag. The other splintered during the Strauss tone poem, Ein Heldenlebcn, the section labeled "The Hero's Battlefield." The butt-end of this was captured by Warren Mayo, president of U. of M.'s varsity glee club. Mayo took it to Stock's dressing room after the performance, and the master good-naturedly inscribed his initials upon...
...American Fraulein is very beautiful but we notice the great amount paint and . . . what do you say . . . oh yes, lipstick and powder. In Deutschland ein Maedel, a girl of nice family would not even wear the power...
Very polite, very friendly, the cadets very eager both to ask, and to answer questions. Asked about the German attitude towards Roosevelt they smiled in evident admiration. "Roosevelt is a great man, ein grosser Fuhrer, amn nicht Zu sturzen (not to be deposed). We admire him very much...
...Germans say ein Hcldcntcnor, mean a full, powerful, wide-ranged voice capable of such dramatic roles as Tristan, Parsifal, Siegfried. Like the late great Jean de Reszke, Melchior began his career as a baritone. Novelist Hugh Walpole staked him to the study that turned him out a tenor...
...STATUES ARE PUNK . . ." I'm acquainted with Gert and with Ein And a great many others named Stein But this sculptor called Ed, Is he living or dead? Or did somebody garble a line? GODFREY HOPKINS New York City A child of error and perversity, Ed Stein was a non-existent character who appeared on Earth just long enough to make TIME, Sept. 11. p. 57, a horrid sight and, but for the intervention of the Blue Eagle, to cost several proofreaders and makeup editors their jobs. The Stein whose place he usurped in the limerick is, of course...