Word: frau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hardly a U. S. adman reached Europe without his wife. In addition there were some 300 female delegates. So Kate Kleefeld Stresemann, wife of the German Foreign Minister, came forward, chairman of a special committee, took the ladies by the hand. That was a pleasure for alert Frau Stresemann. There in a body she could study the genus U. S. woman, of which Berlin women have read in the works of Sinclair Lewis, who lately sojourned in Germany with éclat. As advertising goes, the Foreign Minister's wife could have asked for nothing more explicit than this gathering...
...Significance. By the unhappiness of Hans and Frau Grill, Novelist Edouard attempts to show the end of every peasant-noble union. Too good a psychologist, however, to prevent their becoming live individuals instead of idea-puppets, he succeeds in showing only that the couple were incompatible at times when many another husband or wife would have unearthed the remedy. He also shows how new people, people of money and power, took the place of the old nobility in his country. The social lesson is thus outmoded. If the author were to have lectured in the U. S. on the incompatibility...
...antipathy of the two old women is inspired in part by Frau Grill's beauty. The Baroness has others to guard: children and a husband. Lolo, a daughter, swims beyond her strength to be rescued and kissed by lovely Frau Grill. The Baron, informed of this kiss, pays a call of thanks for the rescue, gets snubbed. Hilmar, Lolo's fiance, attaches himself to Frau Grill. It is too much. The two old women make the family leave...
...Grills? With each other they feel very much alone. For Hans there is always one escape. He is a painter. He has a model he paints by day and loves by night?the sea. The beautiful Frau Grill does very little but remember the days when she was wife of a hoary old ambassador. Then people like the Generalin and the Baroness rendered her kudos. Now she picks quarrels with the young artist who has dragged her out of that old life. Lolo's fiance appeals to her as Hans Grill ennobled. She does not believe with Hans that...
Last week all the world knew that Frau Sacher ruled her hotel no longer. Viennese looked at the announcement over their coffee and whipped cream, and wondered. Was Edouard tired of paying Mamma's bills? Was Frau Anna, now nearly 70, retiring from old age? Had she, who wore an ermine wrap as a bathrobe, finally grown too eccentric...