Word: onda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Potsdam the state school for officers' daughters receives sensitive, 14-year-old Manuela von Meinhardis (Hertha Thiele). The principal (Emilia Onda) tries to turn out steel women to match Prussia's iron men by bundling the little girls in heavy uniforms, marching them in columns up & down long winding stairs, starving, shadowing, suppressing them. At night they weep for loneliness; they exploit any teacher's kindness into a schoolgirl "crush"; on a rare party they go half-mad with sudden unrestraint. Manuela, after a play in which she has starred, drinks several glasses of the school punch, staggers...
...crack North Carolina team. . . . Richard Norris Williams II, national champion in 1914 and 1916, whose tennis is still beautiful to behold, had a good day against young Marco Hecht-8-6, 6-4, 6-4. . . . Frankie Parker, the Milwaukee 16-year-old, put out a wily Japanese, Sadakaza Onda...