Word: philippson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...situation grew more tense. Dore felt the outcome would be grisly. Principal cause for alarm was the jealousy between Lorenz, cast-off lover of the Baroness, and Philippson. the present incumbent. Sure enough, one day Dore heard a scream. Next time she saw Lorenz he told a cock-&-bull tale of the Baroness and Philippson's hurried departure from the island. Neither of them was seen again. Dore was sure Lorenz had murdered them, burnt their bodies. Then Lorenz, in a hurry to get away, went off in a small boat with a Norwegian fisherman. Their sun-shriveled corpses...
...years ago a strange trio landed on Charles Island. They were: 1) a lean fanatical young woman known as the Baroness Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehr-born, latterly of Vienna and Paris; 2) Alfred Rudolph Lorenz, her small, weak, tuberculous lover; 3) Robert Philippson, also a German and their common friend. In their search for an island paradise in the Pacific they had come upon Charles Island only to find it already occupied by two other romantic German couples. Arthur Wittmer and his wife, Margaret Walbrol, practicing nudists, lived with their two children in a corrugated zinc hut. Dr. Karl...
...itself but terrified fishermen from the mainland were imprisoned overnight or chased away at the pistol point. One shipwrecked honeymoon couple from Chile was sent to sea in an open boat, and there were other strange developments. With the changing seasons, the baroness' fancy also changed to Robert Philippson while Lorenz was reduced to a sort of super-scullion...
...March there was another row at the baroness'. Scrambling down a rocky path to investigate, the Wittmers found wild-eyed Rudolph Lorenz standing by a deserted disordered shack. There had been a fight, said he, and the baroness and Philippson had gone off "on an American yacht" to start another colony in the South Seas...
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