Word: fraeulein
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short, everyone knows all about "King Gustav"; and it becomes preferable to write of a svelte and charming woman whom one does not hesitate to call, in homage, "Queen Kate." She, Frau Gustav Stresemann, was Fraeulein Kate Kleeseld. Her father was one of the great industrialists, including Hugo Stinnes, in whose service Gustav Stresemann began to grow great...
...when besought to issue a license by her manager. Finally, lest the powers of darkness should triumph, a deputation of rival Christian Socialists waited upon their great but dour leader, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, Chancellor of Austria, and besought him to "prevent the nude, brazen-faced and heathen dances of Fraeulein Josephine Baker from taking place anywhere in Austria." Chancellor Seipel, perhaps reliably informed that Miss Baker always wears some article of adornment when she dances, sternly cut short a Deputy who rose in Parliament to interpolate the Government upon its intentions...
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