Word: frau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continued his work until his death in 1883, habitually worked from nine in the morning until midnight. Stubborn, proud, quick-tempered, the one stable relationship in his life, aside from his family, was his friendship with Engels. Their only quarrel came when Engels' Irish mistress died. Hurt because Frau Marx had not written to express her sympathy, Engels was offended at Marx's formal note. Never distinguished for tact or graciousness, Marx nevertheless displayed both, wrote a conciliatory message which soothed Engels at once. "Women," wrote the philosopher earnestly, "are funny creatures, even the most intelligent...
...evolutionary blast against Bishop Wilberforce. Osborn similarly tangled with John Roach Straton and William Jennings Bryan ("The Earth," said he, "speaks to Bryan but he doesn't hear a sound"). An able administrator, he turned his museum into a splendidly staffed and equipped capital of scientific research. Died. Frau Elizabeth FÖrster-Nietzsche, 89, only surviving sister of the late Philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, his nurse and secretary during the eleven years before his death in 1900; in Weimar...
...last week's Nobel Prize he has raised a family. Three sons live with him and Frau Spemann at Freiburg: one, a biologist; another, an architect; the third, an artist. A daughter is the wife of Professor Ernst Cloos, Johns Hopkins geologist...
...Sullen Frau Charlotte Juenemann, though with child, had her head struck off in Berlin last week. Notorious since her arrest early this year as the "World's Meanest Mother," Frau Juenemann let her three young children starve to death in a cellar while she spent her last few marks making the rounds of Berlin's cheaper night clubs. Since Herr Juenemann is in an insane asylum, Germany's New Justice assumed that her unborn babe would be a debit to the race...
...Died. Frau Herma Schuschnigg, 34, wife of Austria's Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg; in an automobile accident; near Linz, Austria...