Word: frau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dessau, Frau Becker, laborer's wife, gave birth to her 27th child, a boy, in the 47th year of her life. On the same night, Herr Becker's eldest married sister gave birth to twins...
...Heidelberg is occupied by French troops, the funeral procession was deprived of any military pomp. A vast crowd of notables, who had arrived in 43 special trains, formed a long and impressive queue of mourners. Among them were Frau Ebert, two Fraulein Ebert, Ebert's only son, a brother and a sister, Chancellor Luther, Reichstag President Lobe, ex-Chancellor Marx...
...centuries had reveled in kingly glory, the lack was unusually difficult. It was said that he ate peas with his knife, that he was illiterate, that he dressed like a navvy, that his wife was "an old frump." A thousand jokes at his expense were born. Some said that Frau Ebert would sweep the Presidential Palace herself and that he would polish his own doorknobs. All these jokes he and his wife wisely ignored and soon they ceased...
...piece seems to be based on a delicate episode in the composer's private life. During one of his absences, a letter had arrived at his home from a "bar-lady," asking for two tickets he had promised her for the next performance at the opera. Frau Strauss, choleric spouse, promptly entered suit for divorce. It was some time before the Strauss household was brought back to pacific union by the admission of one of the composer's colleagues that the letter had really been intended...
Siegfried's visit was eminently successful. He is now back in the town of Bayreuth, Bavaria, famed for the first presentations of the great Wagner-cycles. There the fruits of Siegfried's U. S. journey have made possible the resumption of the Bayreuth Festivals, under the auspices of Frau Cosima Wagner, natural daughter of Abbe Liszt, divorced wife of Dr. Hans von Bulow, widow of Richard Wagner, mother of Siegfried. Eighty-six years old, she dominates everything. Though her once sharp eyes are filmed with age, her aristocratic nose appears to be more pointed than ever. She attends rehearsals...