Word: frau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trading with the Pigs. Frau Weimann, 40, reflects the toll on human nerves. "I'm glad when my husband is out; he's so on edge." Franz Weimann lost his job when the blockade ended. To Buckow-Ost, a pastoral suburb, he moved his family of four. Their home is a two-room brick shack in a tiny garden. "How could we pay our old rent of 50 marks ($11.90) when unemployment compensation is 120 marks?" Frau Weimann asked. "This week my husband gave me 15 marks; we're all supposed to eat on that...
...going to be the new parson's first funeral]." The parson's wife decked out her yellow, pinch-faced baby in a white frock and colored ribbons for his father's induction ceremony. But even so, the visitors could manage no compliments for the baby, and Frau Pfarrer Schweitzer fled weeping to her bedroom with sickly little Albert...
...Vienna rooming house, four years ago, an obscure German citizen named Wilhelm Kaiser died, unmourned by anyone except his landlady. That kindly soul, Frau Amalie Feix, had nursed Kaiser during his illness, had paid hospital and funeral bills. The only valuables he had left behind were three rings. These, Frau Feix thought, rightly belonged to her. She hoped to sell them to make up for her expenses. Frau Feix, however, ran smack up against the Big Four...
...from the Austrians after the Anschluss. The Big Four might interminably haggle over half a billion dollars' worth of factories, oilfields and Danube River shipping, but all the competent authorities were agreed on one fact: Herr Kaiser's three rings seemed to be German assets, all right. Frau Feix was informed that she must not sell them without written permission from the Allied Commission for Austria...
...dire financial straits, Frau Feix got a lawyer to plead her case. Last week, deadlocked on practically everything else on the agenda, Austria's Big Four High Commissioners reached agreement on the case of the kindhearted landlady. They decided that Frau Feix might sell the three rings, keep the proceeds in payment for Samaritan services to her boarder...