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...pretty?" But Horst plays glum. One day she gurgled: "Guess what we're having for dinner-your favorite dish!" And Horst replied: "So what? You act as if you'd cooked it." At such times, Maria murmurs soothingly, in the best tradition of the German Hausjrau: "Ach, Horst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Golden Look | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...royalty, but the capital, still remembering the romantic pomp and glitter attendant on last autumn's visit by Princess Elizabeth, wasn't quite ready to be enthusiastic about Queen Juliana of The Netherlands. Frankly, a good many photographs . made Juliana look like an unregal and rather dumpy Hausjrau. But from the moment she stepped out of the doorway of the KLM plane which brought her across the Atlantic last week, Washington began changing its mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Hoera de Koningin! | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

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