Word: fra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will now play a request for Fraülein Griselda Schmidtloser of District Wilmersdorf," said the disc jockey. But what the fraülein heard was not Buttons & Bows; like most Germans, she preferred Liszt and Brahms...
Children, says Mrs. Chaplin, should not be cursed with "Christmas card angels and depictions of an effeminate Jesus in a long, white nightgown. The simplicity of the old masters-for example. . . Fra Angelico-are loved by most children if they have not had the overdose of sentimental pictures beforehand...
...Raphael, there were painters whose art, compounded of form and fire equally, remained a major triumph of the Christian world. The city of Florence was no bigger than Peoria, Ill., but in a single century-the isth-she blossomed with the paintings of Masaccio, Ucello, Botticelli, Luca della Robbia, Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo Lippi, and a score of others...
...Singing. The Germans hated all the occupiers and wished they would leave -but they did not hate them all equally. The downy-cheeked American boys who whistled at the fraüleins were a nuisance; but the Russians were a terror. To mark the difference in the way they felt, the Munich police gave a party last week to say a somewhat fearful farewell to U.S. Brigadier General Walter J. Muller. Forty cops sang The Beautiful Blue Danube for him. Many Germans fear that the U.S. will forget the Danube, the Rhine and the Oder-especially the Oder, where...
...Beautiful. This shirtless "she" was Doris Brigitte von Knobloch, a Darmstadt dental assistant. Fraülein von Knobloch was one of the hundreds of thousands of Europe's little people whose lives have been disrupted by war and thwarted by frontiers. One day during World War II, she had met Rolf Berndt on a Berlin street corner. Gitte was then a police clerk and Rolf a trusty from Sachsenhausen internment camp. "He looked so humiliated in his prison uniform," she explained, "that I said a nice word. He looked so beautiful when he answered, I guess I fell...