Word: lederhosen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last autumn they decided to go to the U. S. Traveling all together in a specially chartered bus, Papa von Trapp, Mama von Trapp and the seven young singing von Trapps barnstormed the Middle West and South, surprised many a gas-station attendant with their dirndl dresses and Lederhosen. Last week they wound up in Manhattan, singing a program of Renaissance music and Austrian folk songs at Town Hall. Manhattan critics found their singing the last word in freshness and refinement...
...hawkers were doing a thriving business in cushions for the hard Festspielhaus seats, trade at the Cafe Bazar was rivaled only by that at a tearoom just opened by Count Ludwig Salm, and thousands of Auslander from everywhere were strolling Salzburg streets in Dirndln (peasant waist, skirt & apron) or Lederhosen (leather shorts with gay suspenders) from Joseph Lanz's smart shop...
Early one morning last week bugles rang out on the sharp mountain air of Innsbruck in the western spur of Austria that is the Austrian Tyrol. Tyrolese in their Lederhosen watched with amazement as the garrison troops marched forth, climbed into buses and rolled off toward Scharnitz on the Bavarian frontier. Off went one regiment of Alpinists, two Viennese infantry regiments, two batteries of mountain artillery and one signal corps company. The good-hearted Tyrolese had heard many a rumor that an army of 8,000 Austrian Nazi exiles had massed on the Bavarian side of the frontier. The rumor...