Word: frauleins
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...spoke English with a Russian intonation, for Russian was his first language. He was born in St. Petersburg (Leningrad), because his father ran a cotton mill there. The Gerhardi children were naturally polyglottal; they learned Russian and German from their nurses, French in school, English from their parents. Their Fraulein "used to take the five of us for walks and she dressed us so warmly, tying woolen hoods over our heads, that by the time the fifth was dressed and ready for an airing the first was nearly swooning, and either screamed hoarsely with resentment or choked in his padded...
Married. James Thornton, son of President Sir Henry Thornton of Canadian National Railways; and a Fraulein Elena Mumm von Schwarzenstein; in Frankfurtam-Main, Germany...
...girls, the first all-German final on record. Long legged Fräulein Hilda Krahwinkel, who hits her drives hard and never gets tired of running, had won a long match against Helen Jacobs of the U. S. after Helen Jacobs had surprisingly beaten England's Betty Nuthall. The other, Fraulein Cecilie ("Cilly") Aussem, a demure little brunette who played well in the French champion ships last month, decided to take no chances. They stood as far back in the court as possible, banged the ball until | one put it out or in the net. Fräulein ! Krahwinkel hit the ball...
...plane and its crew flew on to Chicago for the national air races (see p. 47). With them as interpreter went their homeland friend, Fraulein Hertha Seelemann-Mirow, a pilot of the aviation department of the Hamburg-American Line. The return to Germany will be by steamer...
...Died. Fraulein Ida von Hindenburg, 77, of Berlin, only sister of President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg; at Potsdam...