Word: marias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty years ago a patch-mustached Austrian nobleman, Captain Georg von Trapp, commander of an Austrian submarine, came home from the War to his family castle near Salzburg. There he and his buxom wife, Frau Maria Augusta, settled down to the serious business of raising their family. The family flourished. By 1921 it included seven small von Trapps; and there were more to come...
...Baltimore last week the Aryan Author Herr Oskar Maria Graf worked up the local Deutschamerikanischer Kulturverband by telling its members: "Throughout Germany small groups of citizens opposed to the rule of Adolf Hitler have been formed and are awaiting an opportunity to rise against the Nazi Government." Aroused by this Aryan straight from Europe, the excited Baltimore Kulturverband telegraphed to President Roosevelt a scarcely veiled hint that he might emulate President Wilson, whose XIV Points gave the German masses a rallying ground against Kaiser Wilhelm...
Before the opening performance buxom Neapolitan Soprano Maria Caniglia was found crawling about the Met's splintery stage in search of bent nails. Reason: An old Neapolitan superstition that bent nails mean luck. She found a half dozen, toted them about with her while she sang the part of Desdemona in the season's opener, Otello. Thus equipped, Soprano Caniglia sang lustily, was lustily choked in the last act by Tenor Giovanni Martinelli (Otello) who finally covered her face with a pillow. The performance over, she had the ecstatic satisfaction (see cut) of being smothered again by flowers...
Engaged. Princess Maria, 23, youngest child of the King & Queen of Italy, provisionally engaged for the last four years to Archduke Otto, Austro-Hungarian Pretender, on condition that he regain his nonexistent throne; now that all hope is gone, to his uncle. Prince Louis of Bourbon-Parma, 38; in Rome...
...with a big-shot Nazi in Greece. But the spotlight is on those amateur philosophers whom he numbers among the "Society of Itinerant Humanists." One was a French doctor who came to treat Edman's indigestion, launched instead into a discourse on Platonic philosophy. Another is his maid Maria, one of the best philosophers who ever kept a bachelor's apartment in order, and Edman's tribute is probably one of the sweetest portraits of a maid in literature...