Word: wagnerian
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...Good Man." High on the Allies' blacklist stood the name of notorious Wuppertal Police Chief Paul Kinkier, founding member of the Nazi Party. When U.S. soldiers caught up with him last week in an attic hideout at Nissmitz, he chose to die by taking poison in the best Wagnerian manner-but in a hurry and in a nightshirt. Cried his grief-stricken wife over his body: "My husband was a good man. I just couldn't control him." Then she admitted that her good man had shot twelve people...
...Hitler, Goebbels and Gestapoboss Heinrich Himmler had retired to Berchtesgaden for a Wagnerian finale...
...haired Helen Traubel is the greatest U.S. Wagnerian soprano of her generation. She has come a long way since she was just a St. Louis druggist's daughter with a fine voice. Now, with her heroic proportions (200 lbs.) exhibited to best advantage in sleek costumes by Hollywood's Adrian, her Isolde and Brünnhilde give her every right to queen it over the Metropolitan Opera's distaff contingent...
...Fear We Need Not Yield." On Feb. 1, 1942, after two years in the background, Vidkun Quisling was reinstated as puppet dictator of Norway in a gaudy Wagnerian ceremony in Oslo's Akershus Castle. The people of Oslo stayed away from the ceremony. But in Trondheim Norwegians by the thousand gathered outside Nidaros Cathedral. Inside, preaching to a handful of quislingites, a puppet pastor was shouting the praises of his leader. The people in the street were waiting to hear Dean Arne Fjellbu. At 2 p.m., the hour scheduled for Fjellbu's afternoon service, police appeared with clubs...
Lauritz Melchior, big, Danish-born No. 1 Wagnerian tenor of the Metropolitan, on vacation in South Dakota's Black Hills, dressed himself in demi-Danish hunting costume, by special permit brought down an 1,800-lb. buffalo...