Word: fraulein
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...Fraulein Clairenore Stinnes, eldest daughter of Hugo Stinnes (late industrial lord of the German Ruhr), reached Peking, China, last week in an automobile which she had adventurously driven from Berlin across the Balkans, Turkey and Asiatic Russia (TIME, June 6). She will drive on "around the world" ferrying the Pacific and Atlantic...
Ambassador Sthamer quietly documented his protest, last week, by producing the official German account of the execution: ". . . Soldiers brought Fraulein Cavell from a neighboring house. Her eyes were bandaged and a black veil was placed over her head. While being led to the wall she tottered and fell in a faint, whereupon an officer, kneeling to aim, shot her. . . . She never faced the firing squad...
...Berlin, last week, the Tagliche Rundschau, which often speaks for Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann, thundered: ". . . Unpardonable distortion of the circumstances of Fraulein Cavell's death. . . . Let us hope that the British Government will find a way to suppress the film...
Those who fished the young woman out of Berlin waters found her in delirium and unable to tell her own name. Taken to a sanitarium, she encountered one Fraulein Peutert who soon made the striking announcement that the new patient was the Grand Duchess Tatiana, second daughter of Nicholas the Last. When the Baroness de Buxhaven, onetime Maid of Honor at the Court of Nicholas II, visited the young woman in Berlin and positively declared that she was not Tatiana, it was later announced that she is Anastasia...
...most inaudible violins, swinging and sighing through the measures of a bitter improvisation. The excitement of the cardgame, the quick, inexplicable chances of love and despair rise and fall; tbev are flashes of an ironic dangerous lightning, never followed! by the slow, loud rhetoric of thunder.' As in Fraulein Else, Rhapsody, None But the Brave, Author Schnitzler's understanding of humanity is unclouded with impurities of opinion or emotion. Profundities, in one meaning, are avoided. It is as if Authorj Schnitzler had decided that pro; fundities could never be more than inconclusive platitudes and that in a world...