Word: serra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Curtain Cord. While Germans rejoiced at their Government's declaration, there developed out of the affair, a notable scandal at the famed Film and Stage Supper Club, Berlin. The Marchesa Gabriele di Serra Mantschedda entered with two Italian actors and her sister, Maria Orska, the famed and darkly brilliant Russo-Polish actress, long popular in Berlin. While habitues whispered that the Marchesa's Italian husband had recently deserted her and that she was acting as her sister's business manager, she arose, strolled over to the orchestra and tipped the leader heavily to play an Italian Fascist song. Stepping from...
...them out, somehow, while the German comedian, Eugene Bourg, incited a crowd of Berliners to chase them to their hotel. Later the same night Maria Orska quarreled with her sister, informed her that she could hardly carry on with so impolitic a business manager. Next morning the Marchesa di Serra Mantschedda was found swinging from the curtain cord of a window in her apartment. She had hanged herself...
Before the nodding copse, tangled in its phylacteries, her cry of guilt was the hollow hooting of a nameless bird in a field of desecration. The Kravno women of Israel lamented her madness. That such a year should come upon Serra Golda, her popular grocer-mother...
They fled over the waste world to Doomington. Leah made good ingber (candy) as Serra Golda had taught. Children of English Israel came buying. Soon there was a modest grocery store. Eli, turned carpenter, could pore over his Scriptures late evenings and during the long strikes, still tracking down the far-to-seek revelation of his God. The Lord blessed such piety with a solemn little son, Reuben, content to, learn his catechisms and caress Miriam, his kosher white...