Word: sigrid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stockholm's fashionable shopping center, he met Baroness Sigrid ("Siri") Wrangel, an angel with Nordic frosting, looking as sweetly innocent as if caviar would not melt in her mouth. It was love...
...unexpected shower sprinkled it away). There were also some explosions of temperament (Ginger Rogers refused to let one cherished piece of her sculpture out of the house). But he-man Fred MacMurray double-wrapped his watercolor (Red Chimney) and sneaked it in the back door of the hall; Sigrid Gurie presented a painting signed "Sigrid" (after all, Van Gogh signed his "Vincent"); Mrs. William Powell, whose husband may currently be seen in Life with Father, offered a still life prominently featuring a copy of the book-and signed the picture "Mousie"; Ella Raines showed a circus scene and signed...
With the help of a girl friend named Sigrid Kraft, who also had a fiancé in the U.S., Gitte procured a packing box 29 inches long by 21 inches deep. She bored some air holes in it, equipped it with inside latches, stocked it with sleeping pills, four slices of black bread, a jar of tea and some razor blades (to slash her wrists in case the worst came to the worst). Then Sigrid sent for Private Robert Siedentopf, a friendly G.I. who worked in the same Army dispensary as Gitte...
...Angel. Gitte, Sigrid told Robert, was very anxious to ship a crate full of "fragile personal belongings" to her fiancé in Manhattan. Would Robert be an angel and take it to the airport for her? Carefully Robert set the box on a jeep and pocketed a cablegram written out by Sigrid: "Send $150 immediately and you will see me soon. Gitte." But the cable office would not send it unless Siedentopf signed it with his own name...
Since her daughter Sigrid's wedding, the event of the season, dignified Frau Hans Frank (her husband was the former governor of Poland) has been taking things easier, wining and dining only such close friends as Frau Wilhelm Frick and Frau Walther Funk...