Word: krohn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mortar) last December went so far as to suggest that Marthe herself could do with some reforming. Citing her own book My Life as a Spy, the editor suggested that Marthe's heroism in the underground had consisted largely of a lightning-love rendezvous with Baron Hans von Krohn, German naval attache in Madrid in 1915. "Captain," Marthe had told her superior when the proposition was put to her, "it is a sacrifice costlier than death." "The Service demands it," answered the captain. "Before this beautiful duty, your small moral objections are worth nothing." After this exhortation, wrote...
...these words was a suit for 1,000,000 francs. Trim and neat in a smartly tailored grey suit, the 62-year-old reformer sat stiffly in court while a 30-year-old lawyer defended her virtue. "But this affair was a command," shouted the young man. "Besides, Von Krohn was 70 years old at the time." "You are very young, confrère" murmured the opposing lawyer suavely. "A man of 70 is not necessarily repulsive. Why, I myself...
Last week, after eight days of deliberation, the court awarded a token verdict of 50,000 francs ($130) to Marthe, but observed that Mme. Richard had nonetheless laid herself "open to criticism by the complacency with which in her memoirs she had narrated her affair with Von Krohn." Parisians seemed to take a mischievous delight in the court's comments. At last, cracked the newspaper Combat, "Marthe Richard's patriotic virtue has received its statistical evaluation...
Spring yesterday came to Harvard Square. While some people like Ellen Krohn '53 and Menso Boissevain '52 welcomed the new season in esthetic reverie, others turned to the more symbolic rituals to observe the vernal equinox...