Word: loringhoven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wagner's Kurwenal, a great, shaggy man, was Tristan's tutor and companion. Mathilde, Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven's Kurwenal was a short, smooth-haired dachshund, probably the most remarkable dog of the Western world. Last week's American Kennel Gazette gave the recently deceased dog Kurwenal a striking obituary...
...Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven's good friend, Miss Emelie Augusta Louise Lind-af-Hageby, founder of the British Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society, wrote she had moved into a new office. The Baroness asked Kurwenal what he said to that. He yelped: "No flowers. My warmest greetings...
Mathilde von Freytag-Loringhoven, who taught Kurwenal, is a motherly woman who looks something like Napoleon, with wisps of hair on her broad forehead, squinting eyes, a huge nose. She has trained many a dog, written many an article on the soul life of animals. Boldly she called scholars to "expose" her work, boasting that Kurwenal would perform when she was out of sight and earshot. Müller, Wulf, Plate and others went to her Weimar home to scoff, stayed to be yapped...
With the friendly relations of so many nations in the balance last week, the German foreign office issued an inevitable denial. But no steps were taken against Correspondent Knickerbocker. Organs friendly to the German government did not flay him. One bitter government critic, Nationalist Deputy Axel Freytagh-Loringhoven, dashed into print with a polemic against German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius, accused him of clumsily letting slip the first opportunity beaten Germany has had to play off two of her former enemies against each other. He declared that Dr. Curtius could have wangled concessions for the Reich from both France...