Word: frau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this was done in Szolnok, Hungary, last week to Frau Maria Kardos, first of the famed group of Hungarian female poisoners arrested 14 months ago (TIME, Dec. 9, 1929) to be executed. Frau Kardos was convicted of poisoning her 22-year-old son and her second husband, suspected of also poisoning her first husband...
When the hangman came to guess her weight, Frau Kardos screamed hysterically. But later she ate a large bowl of steaming goulash, passed the night on her knees praying. Next morning, before being led out to die, she drained several glasses of brandy rapidly, alternately wept and prayed until she mounted the scaffold...
...hangman covered her face and grasped her head Frau Kardos cried once, "God help me!" The two assistants tugged at her feet, had to continue tugging for eight minutes...
Seventy people watched and heard. One of them, a man, raved in anguish as though he would go mad. He was Stefan Todor, confessed "lover" and sole heir of 46-year-old Frau Kardos who was reputed wealthy. She had refused him any word of affection or consolation before she went to Death. Groaning and raving, he climbed at last into his sleigh, drove off to the mocking tune of jingle bells...
After four busy days in port, Dr. & Frau Einstein steamed away aboard the Belgenland via Panama for San Diego, Calif, where Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan will meet them. Their California hostess will be a pleasant, greying woman who also knows what it is to be the wife of a famed scientist, Mrs. Robert Andrews Millikan. Born in Oak Park, Ill. she married Dr. Millikan 28 years ago. When she has time, she goes to meetings of Pasadena women's clubs, is active in the Pasadena Drama League, Community Playhouse Association. But of first importance to her is her husband...