Word: frau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greater of the two was bewhiskered Johann II, who wrote the Blue Danube and the operetta Fledermaus. One cause of his greatness was the jealous ambition of his mother, Frau Anna Strauss. Her husband Johann, one of the doggiest of Vienna's gay dogs, transgressed (to the extent of five illegitimate children) with an attractive milliner named Emilie Trampusch. Frau Strauss kept a stiff upper lip, concentrated on making her Johann II a better man than his father. So while Johann I gadded about, Johann II composed and practiced the organ in church. His teachers, who expected...
...murder, heard nothing from his mother feared she was either dead or in a concentration camp, tried to drown himself. That made mild-mannered Mr. Emmanuel angry. Armed only with pince-nez, attache case and British passport, he went to Germany to find out what had happened to Frau Rosenheim. Instead, he found himself held on a trumped-up charge of political murder, escaped the headsman's block only through the intervention of a Nazi higher-up's mistress, the daughter of his old Magnolia Street friend Sam Silver...
...Propaganda Minister Dr. Goebbels, while their employes marched in masses to allotted cheering stations along the troop-lined streets. Out of his special train stepped puzzled-looking, Oxford-bred Regent Prince Paul, whom Germans quickly nicknamed "Prince Charming." In his most winning manner Herr Hitler greeted the Prince while Frau Göring handed Princess Olga, the Regent's wife, a bouquet of roses, welcomed her to Naziland...
Himmler at Home. The Himmler villa is in Grunewald, suburb of Berlin. Not nearly so pretentious a residence as the Göring palace, the Goebbels Schwanenwerder estate or the Hitler Chancellery, it is quite as well guarded. A medical specialist summoned recently to examine Frau Himmler was reported to have had to submit credentials and answer questions to six different guards before arriving at her boudoir...
...life by friends of Actress Baarova's husband. These friends, incensed because the husband had been sent to a concentration camp, had surprised the Propaganda Minister in Lida's rooms, might have killed him had it not been for the intervention of Dr. Goebbels' chauffeur. Frau Goebbels, one of Herr Hitler's more prominent tea-pourers, was supposed to have chuffed off to Copenhagen for the divorce she has long wanted...