Word: katarina
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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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...