Word: minna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that guy is going up to the desk. No, he's saying something about table twenty-seven. I know, I have see his lips move. How?. . . .I had an Aunt Minna, who used to stay with us. Sit down, Joe. You never could catch him through the Delivery Desk. By now he's halfway down. Next time we will. Tomorrow you sit over near that door and I'll sit at this one and then when he comes you come over and get me or I'll come over...
...trio which will play between the acts will consist of Cecile Shapiro, Minna Askowith, and Bernice Tobias...
Opening his study with a phrase which the composer put in one of his letters to Elise Wille, "I ... adorer of women," M. Barthou proceeds to detailed accounts of Wagner's amorous adventures. He was the adorer of many women but most notably three: Minna (Wilhelmina Planer), a stupid, clamorous, third-rate actress whom he married; Mathilde (Mme. Weson-donck) who inspired Tristan; and Cosima (Frau von Bülow, natural daughter of Franz Liszt) who provided the stimulus for the Ring series and whom Wagner loved most of all. In his relations with these ladies, Wagner provided the world with...
Married. Franklin P. Adams ("F. P. A."), 43, colyumist for The New York World, to Miss Esther S. Root, 30; at Stamford, Conn. He was divorced privately, last month, from Mrs. Minna Schwartze Adams...
Notably, his biographer finds, Wagner was unjust to Conductor Lachner, to Robert von Hornstein, his friend, to his first wife Minna, to all hostile critics. His disposition was tempestuous, overbearing; he never paid his bills; not merely asked, but demanded loans of his friends as a condition of continued friendship; was enraged at Minna for her imbecilic protests at his open amours; indignantly resented any interference? even the most pacific?from the husband or family of any lady who chanced to be the object of his rather various affections. A boorish, choleric, tactless, amorous gentlemen was this Wagner, improvident...