Word: walburga
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...first fun in this sort of riddle is to see how far the similarities go. Sister Walburga and Sister Mildred, the Lady Abbess's co-plotters and hatchet nuns, are obviously Haldeman and Ehrlichman. Peripatetic Sister Gertrude, who phones in nightly from Reykjavik or Mombasa and, in a German accent, recommends the study of Machiavelli, is our very own Secretary of Snake. Sister Felicity seems to be an unstable amalgam of George McGovern and John Dean...
...Angeles, Calif., eight years ago, detectives found Walburga Oesterreich in a closet opening into the room in which her husband, Fred Oesterreich, apron manufacturer, lay murdered. Because the door of the closet was locked from the outside, she was never tried for murder...
...friendly with Walter Klein 18 years ago, had described him as her "vagabond half-brother." While the Oesterreichs lived in Milwaukee, Walter Klein inhabited a secret room in their house, unknown to Fred Oesterreich. When they moved to Los Angeles, another secret room, like the first, was constructed for Walburga Oesterreich's vagabond halfbrother. Herman Shapiro said that Klein had admitted overhearing a quarrel between the Oester-reichs, creeping out of his secret room, shooting Fred Oesterreich, pushing Walburga Oesterreich into a closet, locking the door from the outside...
Fraulien Ellmenreich's impersonation of Walburga in "Geier-Wally" is pronounced the most artistic piece of work seen in New York this season...
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