Word: tyrolean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With their new riches, the Trapps "bought a view" in Vermont. A few weeks after they moved in, the old farmhouse came down in a windstorm. They have rebuilt it into a handsome, 20-room Tyrolean manor house. In winter, while the family is on concert tour, the house will be used as a hostelry for skiers...
...cinemaddicts will stand up to cheer these tender graces, but fewer will want to miss those of a Fairbanks find: a 23-year-old, Tahiti-born "Tyrolean blonde" named Paule Croset. Her performance (as a Dutch farm girl) is as clear as a brook, and audiences may well object that the camera does not linger longer on her cool, inviting beauty...
...same Tyrolean ultra-conservatism that Napoleon failed to break brought them out to cheer Otto and Robert Habsburg who drove through the country a few months ago in a Mercedes with the royal crown on the radiator. An Allied directive from Vienna last month expelled the pair. Hotel Owner Franz Huber mourned: "I shall always keep my finest suite ready...
...which has attracted many a former Nazi, is strongest in the Tyrol. Next come the Social Democrats, including almost all non-Volksparteiler. The Communists, though not considered important, somehov,' managed to have better offices and a better organizational setup than their stronger opponents. The biggest thorn in the Tyrolean toe is the force that shapes their lives, the French occupation troops. They have requisitioned the finest houses, the fastest cars, the most luxurious hotels. Once 35,000 strong, they reduced their total to 10,000, but helped make up the difference by bringing in their wives and children...
...little old man in a pink Tyrolean shirt played the piano with trembling hands. When the two Allied war correspondents swayed to his lilting Merry Widow Waltz, tears came to the old man's eyes. "Then the world has not forgotten me," he said...