Word: jewess
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There is palaver between a liberal writer and a Nazi diplomat, and the story of a refugee Jewess. There is a quarrel between a pregnant bride, eager for placid home life, and her Jewish husband who has a confused desire for some active role in Democracy's defense. At length, after what seems hours of talk, a Belgian woman, whose husband has been blinded and her child maimed by German bombs, becomes momentarily crazed and attempts to shoot the Nazi emissary-something that would never happen on Bill Winston's Pan American Clipper. The bullet wounds the young...
...cast is excellent, especially Eleonora Mendelssohn as the sad, contained Jewess, Paul von Hernreid as the prideful Nazi, and Betty Field as the war-sick bride. But Playwright Rice is so anti-Nazi that the play has a flat taste, like propaganda...
...Walter Pick 2M, another Czech who chalked up an outstanding record for his first half year's work at the Medical School; Herbert Sonthoff of Berlin; Georg Fleishcer, who was formerly a wealthy philanthropist and educational leader in Vienna and was exiled without a penny because he married Jewess; and Klemens Klemperer, another Austrian...
...Paris famed Mme Cécile Brunschvieg, No. 1 French feminist, only Jewess ever in the Cabinet (TIME, June 15, 1936) and Editor of La Française ("The French woman"), was keeping all her irons in the fire while nursing a sick child at home between intervals of work. She bounces out of bed early, attends to liaison between the Ministries of Health and Education, supervises social work among Paris slum children, edits her newspaper on busses or wherever she can open up her bulging portfolio, snorts cheerfully, "I have so much work to do there is no time...
...recent years ardent anti-Semite Adolf Hitler and his then leading British admirer, potent London Daily Mail Press Tycoon Viscount Rothermere, conducted their somewhat confused and often ludicrous relations through "Princess Steffi, the Mystery Woman of Europe" (as tabloids tag her), despite the fact that she is a Viennese Jewess. In court, Princess Steffi was able to show that Lord Rothermere has paid her some $185,000 in a period of over five years to be his "foreign political representative." She was now suing to force him to fulfill an alleged promise to pay her $20,000 yearly...