Word: ruge
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...born north of the Arctic Circle, and would probably never have had a singing career if the Norwegian army's general staff had not been quartered on her father's farm during the war. Not knowing how to awaken a man of the rank of General Otto Ruge, Norway's commander in chief, Aase's mother asked her 17-year-old daughter to sit at the organ and sing him awake. Ruge was so impressed that he urged her to study. Since then she has risen to opera stardom in Europe. Once, following a performance, Flagstad...
When the day came for setting out, "Mr. Salteena did not have an egg for his brekfast in case he should be sick on the jorney." While Ethel dabbed "red ruge" on her cheeks ("I am very pale owing to the drains in this house"), Mr. Salteena ran upstairs and "silently put 2/6 on the dirty toilet cover" for Rosalind, the housemaid...