Word: franz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought General Erich Ludendorff, famed during the War as the "brains of old Field Marshal von Hindenburg." Over a period of several years $300,000 was advanced by General Ludendorff and patriotic friends to one Franz Tausend, alchemist, who promised to make enough gold to pay the Fatherland's debts and leave a comfortable surplus for his backers...
Although stern, Hungarian justice is well tempered by mercy. This was the first execution of a woman in Hungary since 1867, the year in which Kaiser Franz Joseph was crowned King. He would permit no woman to be hanged, and not until the present gruesome epidemic of female poisonings occurred, was the female death penalty revived. Three more murderesses will be hanged, unless reprieved by His Serene Highness the Governor of the Kingdom, Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya. Of the 40 women arrested for poisoning husbands, children and lovers, most received prison sentences or were acquitted...
...Fogg Museum of Art there are several exhibitions of worth. The paintings of the Naumburg Bequest, including Rembrandt's "Portrait of an Old Man", El Greco's "Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple," and "Portrait of a Preacher of Holland" by Franz Hals, are perhaps the most important. There are also exhibitions of nineteenth century watercolors, Rembrandt etchings, and Old Master drawings, as well as the new loan exhibition of objects excavated at Ur by the joint expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of Pennsylvania...
...tunes which accompanied these goings-on were pleasant but not particularly distinguished. Composer Franz von Suppe (Poet and Peasant Overture) wrote them for Boccaccio, a cluttered comic piece based on the Italian storyteller's love for Fiammetta, bastard daughter of the Duke of Tuscany. But the Metropolitan audience was unusually enthusiastic, broke its rule, stayed almost to a dowager until the final curtain. Soprano Maria Jeritza (Boccaccio) was the magnet for most. She was radiantly fair, displayed calves beyond the dreams of most opera singers. One waltz, compiled by Conductor Artur Bodanzky from Suppe themes, she sang with such...
...President. To preside over their next year's meeting (in New Orleans) the scientists chose able Dr. Franz Boas, anthropologist of Columbia University. Born in Minden, Germany, 72 years ago, Dr. Boas became interested in ancient man at the Universities of Heidelberg, Bonn, Kiel. In 1887, three years after he returned from his first exploration, at Baffin Land, he married Marie Krackowizer of New York, has had three children. He has been a member of the anthropology department of Columbia for 34 years, belongs to 31 scientific societies...