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Word: katharina (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highway, put-putting toward Vienna, was a motorcycle carrying Herman Reitman, well-known Viennese motorbike rider, and a woman companion, Katharina Grünhut. A light sedan going faster in the same direction came up from behind and apparently started to pass. Then inexplicably the vehicles swerved together, the motorcycle bounced off to the side of the road, where its two passengers lay groaning. A few passers-by ran up to them. The sedan braked to a stop farther down the road and the driver climbed out and walked back. Taking a hasty glance at the scene, he drew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: And Who Is My Neighbor? | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...morning three times a week, he arose, put on a well-cut uniform and yards of braid, walked across the gardens of Schonbrunn, slipped out through a secret gate, and presented himself at a little yellow cottage at Gloriette Road No. 9. There he was greeted by the beautiful Katharina Schratt, "Käthi" to His Majesty. Dressed in full court costume, she would bow low, say "Good morning, Colonel," and wave him in. By 6:30 sharp the two were seated at a good bourgeois breakfast, roaring with laughter over some morsel of court gossip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRO-HUNGARY: End of K | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...Died. Katharina (Käthi) Schratt, 84, mistress of the late Austrian Emperor Franz Josef; in Vienna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 29, 1940 | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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