Word: frau
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...Story begins with the bold, brusque strokes of a poster: the German quarter of New York about 1890; Anton Zwenge, a violin-mender; his mercurial wife; his manual-laboring friends. Frau Zwenge sells sheet music against her husband's will. With the years this business prospers, dislodges him from his workbench, drives him into a corner of her store. It is the same with his old friends. The cigarmaker's sons, the baker's, install machinery. Mass production, money, is the pulse of the city. There are immigrants by the thousand to buy, to push the older immigrants...
With a loud voice, the executive committee of the third Internationale issued orders nine columns long to the German Communist Party: Frau Ruth Fischer, its leader, is to be deposed. Thus she follows Rosa Luxemburg* and Klara Zetkin† into limbo. The reason given for the Communist order was the growing ineffectiveness of the Communist movement in Germany. Ernst Thaelmann, former dockyard worker, was named in her place. He is a more "moderate" Communist than Frau Fischer. Dr. Hugo Eckener, veteran Zeppelin pilot, made a speech at Leipzig, appealing for funds to build a Zeppelin to make a flight...
Meanwhile the Herr President was besporting himself on a strenuous vacation probably having forgotten that he had ever written or had his secretary write a statement for the Nation's Business. At Dietmannsried, in Bavaria, he was the guest of Frau Hubert Von Schilicher, the widow of a friend. There he rises at 7:30, according to report, works until noon, dines heartily, then walks for three or four hours in spite of his 78 years. Occasionally he goes on a chamois hunting expedition with his son, Major Von Hindenberg, his son-in-law, Herr Von Kugelgen...
When Hugo Stinnes, the John Davison Rockefeller of Germany, died, last year (TIME, Apr. 21, 1924), his vast interests were left to his Witwe (widow), Frau Klaire Wagenknecht Stinnes, and direction of the estate was divided between Dr. Edmund Hugo Stinnes, the eldest of Herr Stinnes' five children, and "Junior" (Hugo Hermann) Stinnes, the second...
...German Presidential Election was a quiet, stolid affair, members of the Cabinet voted at a little beer house in the Taubensi The first to arrive was Prussian Minister of Justice Zehnhof, follow by Acting President Walter Simons, to vote for a successor to himself. Next came Foreign Minister and Frau tav Stresemann. Dr. Stresemann began to make out his ballot on a table, was told by a clerk that he must do it in a booth. With a sigh and a terrific squeeze; the portly Doktor entered a small booth. At Potsdam, Prince Friedrich, second son of the ex-Kaiser...