Word: frau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chancellor Adolf Hitler lately complained German-born Anton Karthausen that his hand-made dresses and skirts did not sell well in Brownsville, Tex. Joyously last week Herr and Frau Karthausen and child were hurrying back to the Fatherland on tickets sent them by gentle Adolf. Of all forms of publicity for Nazidom the dispatch of such "Hitler tickets" was proving the most effective. Proud as Punch was tall, brooding Dr. Ernst Hanfstaengl, the Chancellor's closest friend, who staged the return from Reading, Pa. of stranded Ignatz Westenkirchner & family (TIME...
...hour. True, Carpenter Ignatz Westenkirchner during the War fought as a private in the squad of onetime Lance Corporal Adolf Hitler. True, when Ignatz and his family were stranded in Reading, Pa. the Chancellor replied to their plea for help by sending enough money to put Ignatz, Ignatz Jr., Frau Westenkirchner and their apple-cheeked daughters aboard the S. S. Hamburg (third class) for Germany (TIME, Jan. 1). But in the bustling Chancellery who was going to tell Adolf about Ignatz? Suddenly to their rescue went tall, brooding Dr. Ernst Hanfstaengl, psychic friend of the Chancellor (TIME...
...performance of Parsifal in all German theatres outside Bayreuth. For 21 years Wagner's family succeeded in keeping the great religious music-drama sacred to the Festivals. In 1903 the Metropolitan Opera Company first gave it. In 1912 the copyright lapsed in Germany. Bayreuth is now run by Frau Winifred Wagner, the late great Richard's daughter-in-law to whom Hitler has often been rumored engaged...
...Brown Book of the Hitler Terror, prepared by a committee chairmanned by British Laborite Lord Marley, appears a photostatic copy of a certificate signed by Stockholm's Police Doctor Karl Lundberg on April 16, 1926: "Captain Göring is a morphia addict and his wife Frau Carin Göring, nee Baroness Fock, suffers from epilepsy. Their home must therefore be regarded as unfitted for her son Thomas...
...Fussy Frau Albert Einstein manages her fuzzy-crowned husband much as a hen does a bewildered chick. Worrying lately about his health, she wished to have him examined, was able to only by a trick: she got a doctor to show Dr. Einstein a sphygmomanometer. Inquisitive, he fiddled with it to see how it worked, had his blood pressure counted before he knew it. Examination showed Dr. Einstein no more unhealthy than the average sedentary person. But last fortnight, aboard the S. S. Westernland en route to the U. S., he felt unwell, was obliged to keep to his cabin...