Word: frau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Paul von Hindenburg is strict on one point: he will serve as godfather to no German child except a ninth son. Last week in the Prussian town of Langenberg one Frau Colsman, already mother of six sons, was successfully delivered of boy triplets. Vice Chancellor von Papen stepped up as godfather of one. Chancellor Adolf Hitler as godfather of another. For the third and ninth President von Hindenburg proudly allowed himself to be registered as godfather...
...admirers of Adolf Hitler. But when Karl's bigwig Storm Trooper friend Johannes von Rentzau learns that his mother is Jewish, a Nazi blight falls on the house. Professor Opal loses his job, bank account, friends; Karl his Storm Troop membership and fiancée. Frau Opal shoots herself dead. Von Rentzau marches in with a handful of troopers to inform the professor that because he had a son killed in the War, the high command has reinstated him at the university. Bearing his wife's body onstage, Professor Opal is in the midst of a terrific denunciation...
...Vienna, her headquarters for 18 years, Lotte Lehmann has sung some 50 roles in German, French, Italian. In Vienna also she became Frau Otto Krause. Her husband, a tall important-looking insurance director, travels with her to the U. S., complains only of her tremendous energy. She will get up at 7 o'clock in the morning no matter how late she goes to bed. Herr Krause speaks little English but when he hears his wife's praises he taps his big chest and says impressively: "Yes. with her it is all from the heart...
Sirs: ...Is not Doktor Einstein's language German? JUDSON S. HUBBARD Denver, Col. President Roosevelt speaks German but not so fluently as he does French and Italian. Frau Doktor Einstein translated to speed up the talk...
Most honored guests at the White House last week were Herr Doktor & Frau Albert Einstein. They dined and spent the night, visited the President's office to see his collection of ship prints. Since the Doctor and the President do not speak each other's language, Frau Doktor Einstein had to translate when her learned husband said, "Boating and sailing are my principal hobbies...