Word: von
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beautiful. This shirtless "she" was Doris Brigitte von Knobloch, a Darmstadt dental assistant. Fraülein von Knobloch was one of the hundreds of thousands of Europe's little people whose lives have been disrupted by war and thwarted by frontiers. One day during World War II, she had met Rolf Berndt on a Berlin street corner. Gitte was then a police clerk and Rolf a trusty from Sachsenhausen internment camp. "He looked so humiliated in his prison uniform," she explained, "that I said a nice word. He looked so beautiful when he answered, I guess I fell...
Officers of the Associated Harvard Clubs of four states and the District of Columbia joined the members of the Virginia Harvard Clubs last night in the Mosque auditorium in Richmond, Va., where they heard Dean Bender and F. Skiddy von Stade, Jr. '38 describe conditions at the College this fall...
...Kurt von Schuschnigg, 49, last Chancellor of Austria before Hitler moved in, arrived in Manhattan from Italy with wife Vera and six-year-old daughter Cissy, promptly headed for Brooklyn, declaring his hope to settle there. A visitor for two months last spring, he now returned, said he, as "a refugee, a displaced person." His plan for the future? "To live a quiet life...
...outlaw Big Harpe, who terrorized the Ohio Valley about 1800, had "coarse hair of a fiery redness." William Clarke Quantrill, the murderous Civil War guerrilla, was a redhead. So was Wild Bill Hickock, and Jack McCall who killed him. The records, Dr. von Hentig says, are thick with "Big Reds," "Reddys," and "Red Mikes...
Possible explanation: redheads often have "accelerated motor innervation," i.e., they are quick on the draw. With this advantage, Dr. von Hentig thinks, it is no wonder that they rose to prominence in the shooting business. "The frontier was an all-male society," the report adds, with a hint of regret. "It was therefore easy to omit the issue of the red-haired woman...