Word: franz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only 65 sq. mi. in area, Liechtenstein is one of Europe's tiniest independent states. It is situated between Switzerland and Austria, has a population of 11,500, no army. Present ruler of Liechtenstein is Prince Franz, 77. Two years ago Prince Franz married Frau Elsa von Eross, née Baroness Guttman of Vienna. He had married her secretly in 1921 in Salzburg, Austria. Because she was a commoner he could not make public the marriage. She is wealthy, of Jewish descent...
Alone in a shack on the White River, Ariz., four miles from the Apache reservation, lived Henrietta Schmerler, 23, a New York girl who wanted to learn Indian tribal secrets. A brilliant student of anthropology and ethnology at Columbia University under famed Professor Franz Boas, she had been granted a fellowship to go west and study red men in situ...
From Berlin the Graf resumed flight (her 202nd) to Leningrad, thence pushed on toward the island of Novaya Zemlya, and Franz Josef Land, where philatelists' mail was to be exchanged with the Russian icebreaker Malygin. Unless further unknown land were sighted, Dr. Eckener did not intend to push farther north. There was only the remotest possibility that he would venture to the Pole. More likely was the tentative course east to Northern Land, south to Cape Chelyuskin and back to Archangel via the Siberian Coast. Approximate distance: 6,200 mi. Estimated flying time...
...French Brussels is of course fiercely anti-Fleming. The photograph showed Queen Elisabeth not merely in the company of Flemings but Flemings drinking Flemish beer. At Her Majesty's elbow loomed a beer keg. Around her in attitudes made classic by Franz Hals lolled a group of Flemish gentlemen carelessly attired, puffing blissfully at their Flemish pipes...
...association with Strauss and his works (the theatre was built in 1908) was it to be regretted, but its passing marked another step in the decline of Vienna's once-renowned product, the operetta. Here had been given the premieres of most of the works of Franz Lehar. Now Vienna is poverty-ridden. The Tonfilm offers potent competition with the ordinary run of state theatres, and many composers-like Oskar Straus (The Waltz Dream)- have gone over to the talkies. Bustling Berlin can make money with Lehar and Strauss: but Berlin has its Max Reinhardt who, in mounting...