Word: styrian
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...first Brünnhilde was not easy to find, for most prima donnas impressed Wagner as being "silly, fastidious schoolgirls." He finally chose Amalie Materna, a big-chested Styrian with a grand manner and a zooming voice. At that first Bayreuth Festival in 1876 one of the Rhine maidens was a pretty young Jewess named Lilli Lehmann. Wagner wanted to adopt her but her mother, who knew the master well, objected. Lehmann was a light coloratura then and no one, least of all Wagner, suspected that she was soon to cultivate dramatic rôles and sing Brünnhilde...
...exiling all who do not renounce their royal rights. One prominent Habsburg was in Vienna last week. Archduke Anton, 33-year-old husband of the Princess Ileana of Rumania. Both have recently joined the Heimwehr. Both appeared at a Heimwehr mass meeting last week, the Princess wearing a little Styrian hat with the Heimwehr feather and green ribbon. Speaking rapidly in German with a British accent she said: ''The Heimwehr is our opportunity. We have real leaders now. The best thing we can do is to go along with them-for Austria and for the Fatherland, with...
...Styrian Alps in Austria, lightning struck a woman wearing a gold necklace, melted the necklace, gave the woman a slight shock...
...Ford parked his effects in a Viennese hotel. That action had an instant repercussion. The Austrians looked at one another with puckered brows. Said one: "He has come to take over the Styrian arms factory." Another: " He is going to produce 40,000 cars a year!' Shares in the Styrian concern were still soaring when it was discovered that the visitor was not the celebrated Detroiter, but only " a Mr. Ford from Chicago...
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