Word: frau
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Swooping to Leipzig next day Chancellor Hitler, who can play the piano and prefers to play Wagner, sat through a musical commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Wagner's death. A bachelor and only 43, Handsome Adolf has often been rumored engaged to Frau Winifred Wagner, 35, an English-born widow whose maiden name was Williams, and who is the relict of Genius Wagner's son Siegfried. Greeting Frau Wagner formally though courteously, Chancellor Hitler left her with the stereotyped phrase, "Auf wiedersehen, Gnädige Frau...
...Frau von Hindenburg's babe was born day after the Christmas party at her father-in-law's, shortly before TIME, Jan. 2, went to press. Alert editing made it possible to include the Milestone in the news story...
...Vienna it is the custom for children confirmed at St. Stephen's Cathedral to be taken afterwards for a drive through the Prater, then to a pastry-shop where they are allowed to eat their fill of schlagobers (whipped cream). Decade ago schlagobers inspired homey Frau Richard Strauss to write a ballet scenario. Herr Richard lathered it with music prodigiously orchestrated, conducted it at the Vienna Staatsoper to celebrate his 60th birthday. In the ballet, pralines, marzipans and gingerbread men dance in a pastry-shop kitchen. Whipped-cream ballerinas waltz out of a giant bowl. An over-stuffed little...
Born. To Colonel Oscar von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, son of Germany's President Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg; and Frau Margarita von Hindenburg; a daughter. President von Hindenburg's eleventh grandchild; in Berlin...
...oldest Deputy opens each new Reichstag, and old people's tongues are tart. Last autumn the 6th Reichstag since the founding of the Republic was opened by drooling Frau Clara Zetkin, 75, "Grandmother of the German Revolution," who screamed Communist abuse of President von Hindenburg, demanded his impeachment (TIME, Sept. 12). Last week the new (7th) Reichstag was opened in equally abusive fashion by grizzled, gimlet-eyed, grey-mustached General Karl Litzmann, 82, the Fascist Party's specially acquired official parliamentary oldster...