Word: frauleins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Action follows in the wake of the Mond pilgrimages. As every Britisher knows. Father Ludwig Mond had come to England from Germany with 40,000 marks, a device for making and bottling soda-water, and infinite faith. That faith was somewhat tremulously shared by Fraulein Henrietta Herz, daughter of Father Ludwig's German landlady, who had loaned him her small capital. As a speculative venture, the loan was one of the most successful in history. Fraulein Herz lived to be repaid 200% each year on her advance. Father Ludwig lived to see his British factory a spectacular success...
...Weeping, Fraulein Rasche considered the horrors of moral turpitude. But Mrs. Stillman reassured her: "Now, don't you worry. I have had lots of court experience. Everything will come out all right...
Would she fly with Fraulein Rasche to Europe? "Mrs. Stillman," she asked herself, "are you going to do it?" She relieved the suspense, answered herself: "I'm afraid I'm not. I have my family to think of-but-if it weren't for that...
...feud with photographers by threatening to hurl one bold fellow into the waters of Long Island Sound. Plates and crockery, not threats, had been her weapons last July, when she fell upon the persistent, scoop-seeking villains of the press at her son's wedding. On the Winona Fraulein Rasche, an interested spectator, lumbered to her cabin, rested...
...Stillman emotional experience can be serene. Into this idyllic union of feminine wealth and feminine daring came the disturbing arm of the law. Fraulein Rasche's former backers, suddenly emerging from anonymity, frankly revealed themselves as Harold W. Hartwell and the Hollis Corporation. They disclosed a contract with the aviatrix, obtained an injunction preventing her from flying away in the Stillman sky-blue Bellanca...