Word: frau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sickness delayed the arrival of the Studentischer Madrigal-choir of Munster University in West Germany, whose Volkswagen caravan drove into the Yard last night. Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society members stood in the rain for several hours waiting to greet the 52 students and their director, Frau Herma Reuter. The group will present a concert of Bach, Brahms, and Bruckner tonight at 8:30 in Paine Hall...
...Deep Is the Ocean? In Brixlegg, Austria, Frau Elsie Ellenunter decided to test her husband's love, coyly planted a faked, self-addressed love letter on a table, learned the extent of his devotion when he chased her from the house with a kitchen knife...
...nearly three years the widow of topflight Gestapoman Reinhardt ("the Hangman") Heydrich (see BOOKS), neatly assassinated by the Czech underground in 1942, has collected a $46-a-month pension from the West German government. Frau Heydrich's stipend is justified on the ground that her husband was killed in enemy action. Last week a provincial court was mulling a government suit that would end her pension...
...Though the titles Bishopess, Priestess and Deaconess are sometimes found in the early Church, these referred to the title of the husbands, as modern German wives may be called Frau Doktor or Frau Professor...
...took to a sanatorium to rest herself. Germany's Foreign Office issued an official apology for the "extremely regrettable" incident, putting it down to Daisy's "nervousness and inexperience." For the most part, Britons, after thinking it over, were inclined to forgive Daisy. "Nobody who has met Frau Schlitter," wrote the Manchester Guardian, "doubts her enjoyment of the London scene and her affection for the English. It would be a pity if a slip of the tongue were to disturb−it could surely not damage−the career of her husband, who has created a wholly favorable...