Word: katarina
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...cheeked. a bandit (tomboy) in her native Polish village ; on her mother's urging, she decides to put the dreaded camps-of-no-return far behind her and to pass as a Christian. By a fast shuffle of the cards of identity, she turns up in Austria as Katarina Leszczyszyn, a Ukrainian D.P., peasant-merry and eager for work. An Austrian railroad executive and his wife hire her as a maid, and she does so well that they want to adopt her. Ironically, doctors find Eva "a perfect specimen of the Aryan race." (Author Levin seems to have...
...asked daughter Katarina, who was acting as watchdog, if it was possible to get Sibelius outside before sunset. He was very willing. He walked in the woods and sat on a bench near a stone wall...
Directed by an old hand, Alan S. Downer 5G, the Bellboys will present Shakespeare's version of "The Taming of the Shrew" with baritone John S. Weld '39 starring in the female lead of Katarina...
Someone accused Baroness Katarina von Ohimb, lady member of the Reichstag, of "playing petticoat politics" during the last Cabinet crisis. Retorted the good lady: "You will have to look elsewhere for the guilty parties, and to help your search I will inform you that bowing to the dictates of the present fashion I do not wear petticoats." Die Tageszeitung, reactionary Berlin journal, added ironically: "Every German politician knows that the Baroness wears trousers, not petticoats...