Word: martina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With touring in winter and running a camp in summer, what time is left for family life? "But this is family life!" Mrs. Trapp exclaims. "Martina paints and Agathe makes greeting cards and Maria does wooden candlesticks and Werner farms and we all sing together-we do things together, and that is real family life. That is what is wrong with everybody. They don't do things; they buy them at the five-&-ten. Everywhere we go, I try to show people how to do things together, in the family, which is the way God meant people to live...
Headwork. In Vienna, House-Hunters Martina Lang and Franz Muelbacher got desperate, decapitated Joseph and Anna Schwarz, tried to move into their apartment, landed in jail instead...
Like pressagents, oil promoters and manufacturers of face mud, witches must never allow a client to feel doubt about the product. This is particularly true in the matter of hexes and evil spells. When scraggly-haired, Mexican-born Mrs. Martina Cordova burned black candles and stirred up foul-smelling liquids in her Denver rooming house, she looked very impressive. But her method of applying and removing hexes was too routine...
Thus far, there has been one brilliant program: the contrast of the great intellectual classicist, Bach, and the great intellectual romantic, Berlioz. But, on another night, the audience was subjected to a double dose of Sibelfus, with a new Martina symphony thrown in; last Saturday the orchestra would up its program with Rachmaninoff and Rimsky-Korsakov, and broadcast...
...seemed a queer ballad for a nun to tackle. But even at its climax-when the landlord's daughter warns her lover of the King's men, by shattering her breast with a musket shot-the Noyes was expertly joined by Sister Martina's warm, robust music...