Word: hausfrau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Otto Meissner was once secretary to "the George Washington of the German Republic," its first President, Friedrich Ebert (died 1925). One day last week Dr. Meissner picked up his telephone, heard a woman's voice weak with terror, the voice of Widow Ebert, a plump, pink, normally happy hausfrau...
...once have possessed. The rest of Lady & Gent is in quite another mood. At the house where they suspect the manager has hidden the money, Puff and Slag find instead a small boy. They adopt him. Slag gets a job in the steel mill. Puff becomes a model hausfrau. They send the boy through school and college. The climax arrives when the youth, already a college football hero, wants to become a professional prizefighter. In a desperate attempt to dissuade him, Slag attacks his ward, wins his point by taking one more licking. Good shot: Slag, inarticulate when called upon...
...chosen when she was a chorus girl (Charlotte Leslie) mentioned by either counsel. Mr. Kresel called her "the contestant"; Mr. Steuer, pointing, described her as "the lady at the end of the table." Plump, smiling, dressed in the slightly garish style of a typical upper-west side hausfrau, Charlotte Fixel waited for the court to decide whether she was entitled to demand one-half of an estate which she estimated at $75,000,000 or whether she would emerge, after her years of slightly dubious affluence, a dumpy disappointed warning to women who place their faith in "common...
...plump, broadfaced hausfrau sat quietly in the drawing room of the S. S. Belgenland as it lay in New York harbor last week. Although her eyes were laughing, she seldom glanced away from the frail-looking man with the tousled white hair and big, gentle brown eyes who sat beside her. The room was full of cameras, newsgatherers with vast questions on their tongues...
Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau, chief of the school for commercial pilots at Warne-munde on the Baltic, kissed his hausfrau last week, remarked casually, "It is time for the annual practice flight to Iceland; I will be gone tomorrow with three of my students." Next day Frau von Gronau received a note: "I am leaving on a longer trip. Love to you and the children." By that time the captain, with Students Eduard Zimmer, Fritz Albrecht, Franz Hack had taken off from the school's seaplane port at List, on the North Sea Island of Sylt. Their plane...