Word: frauleins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...honor. Said the guest: "I have nothing to wear but the clothes on my back but I hope some kind friend will rig me out." Later, she replied "indeed not" when asked if she were too tired to dance. She declined, however, to accompany Friederich Loose, Karl Loewe & Fraulein Dillenz (Viennese actress) on their flight by easy stages from the Azores to the U. S. She wanted to go to Paris first. There, no official welcome was planned. But Miss Elder's coming was known to a gallant populace...
...Munich airport Baroness von Maltzan, former Fraulein Edith Gruson, daughter of a wealthy Magdeburg steel manufacturer, and her little daughter, Edith, were waiting for the arrival of husband and father. An official approached, sad news in his eye. The Baroness, with superb self-control, sensed the full import of the messenger's news. "Tell me," said she, "is he killed?" And without an answer being given she knew...
Soon he saw Irene Baierele, carrying a payroll package from bank to office. With protective gallantry he said to her: "Bow your head and follow me in silence." Arriving at police headquarters they went together to a private room. Here, still gallant, Herr de Bay relieved Fraulein Baierele of her package and vanished, while she waited his return. Later he was discovered in a gambling club, disposing of Fraulein Baierele's package in dishonest fashion. Genuine policemen arrested him, took him to court, removed him, silent, his head bowed, to jail; where for five years he must remain...
Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin and Passenger Charles A. Levine were last week enjoying the hospitality of Germans, resting in the watering place known as Baden-Baden, inspecting huge multi-motored airships at the Dornier and Zeppelin plants. Some of their doings: ¶Fraulein Thea Rasche, Germany's only licensed woman pilot, was taken for a ride over Berlin by Pilot Chamberlin. Skillful, she also took Passenger Levine for a ride. Correspondents heralded the trips as strengthening to U. S.-German relations...