Word: fr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week's secret ceremony was neither the first nor the last of its kind. Clandestine G.I.-Fräulein marriages are expected to increase as winter sets in. A G.I. husband can provide his Frau with extra food, fuel to heat her room...
...found the form. It was these lapidary fragments which he called trivia, and in which he condensed the discernments, bafflements, exultations, wry exposures to society and to eternity, and shy self-revelations of the Smithian soul, which in Baudelaire's words is "vous, hypocrite lecteur, mon semblable, mon frère"-"you, hypocritic reader, my likeness, my brother." All Trivia is Smith's amused comments on life, heightened by his sense of the precariousness of living...
...worked in the city hall; her domineering mother was determined that Lida should be a radiant somebody. She became one, in motion pictures. Seven years ago she was the center of a great brouhaha when goatish little Paul Joseph Goebbels was beaten up (either by her burly husband, Gustav Frölich, or by friends of his) for being entertained in Lida's chambers. Berliners coined a crack-"Ich möchte so gern fröhlich sein"-which can mean either "I wish I were happy" or "I wish I were Frölich." In Prague last week...
Polonaise (music by Frédéric Chopin & Bronislaw Kaper; lyrics by John Latouche; book by Gottfried Reinhardt & Anthony Veiller; produced by W. Horace Schmidlapp in association with Harry Bloomfield) is a sumptuously messy musical that involves a chronological partition of Poland. Eighteenth-Century Polish Tadeusz Kosciuszko, the freedom-loving volunteer of the American Revolution, supplies the plot; 19th-Century Polish Frédéric Chopin contributes most of the music; and 20th-century Polish Jan Kiepura (The Merry Widow) leads the singing...
...continental Europe, G.I.s are catching a venereal disease at a rate of 128 cases per 1,000 men per year. The rate, which was only 48 per 1,000 in May, began to rise immediately after V-E day. Most infections occur in France; Fräuleins with fraterneyes" are the No. 2 source...