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Word: ondra (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broadcast was abruptly cut off immediately after the announcement of the knockout. Cafe and restaurant owners, who had been given special permits to stay open until 6 a.m., wrung their hands as their patrons gloomily filed out three minutes after the broadcast began. Schmeling's wife, pretty Anny Ondra, who is one of the most popular cinemactresses in Germany, sobbed: "It's terrible that punches like that are permitted." Reichsführer Adolf Hitler sent her his condolences and Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels sent flowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fireworks | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...Boxing Expert Arthur Billow, who had predicted in Berlin's 12 Uhr Blatt that Negro Joe Louis would whip the German fisticuffer in Manhattan. As the dirigible Hindenburg neared Frankfurt with Schmeling aboard, Dr. Goebbels rushed the pugilist's mother and his wife, German Cinemactress Anny Ondra, to meet him in a Government plane. Berlin tax experts figured that of Schmeling's $150,000 fight profits, the U. S. will get $40,000 and Germany $50,000 unless special tax remission is ordered by Adolf Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Schmeling Reward | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

Married. Max Schmeling, onetime heavyweight champion boxer; and Anny Ondra (born Anna Ondrakova), Czech musicomedy and cinemactress; in Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 17, 1933 | 7/17/1933 | See Source »

Miss Anny Ondra, as Monika Boehnicke, a sales girl, scratches her ribs in the various ecstasies of love until the wealthy Americo-German financier is willing to marry her. Walldorf, who is described as a business man, rushes about with his wife alternately trying to pay for clothes that are being repaired, and giving lavish dinners. Monika's idea of paradise is a drunken brawl with much sitting on mirrors and with her mother and father downstairs, weeping...

Author: By R. M. M., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/23/1933 | See Source »

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