Word: widowered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perpetual dither. "Aryan" Composer Richard Strauss's operas have escaped the ban, though several of his most successful (Die Schweigsame Frau, Der Rosenkavalier, Elektra) have librettos by Jews. Also unbanned, and of Jewish authorship, are librettos of "Aryan" Composer Franz Lehar's operettas (The Merry Widow, et al.). Carmen, a perennial favorite in German opera houses, was written by French Composer Georges Bizet, who is generally credited with some Jewish blood. Kulturkammer authorities got around this difficulty by officially "Aryanizing" Bizet. Although music by such Jewish composers as Mendelssohn, Mahler. Meyerbeer is now unheard in Germany, German publishing...
Fortnight ago, Mrs. Edith Liggett, widow of Walter W. Liggett, Minneapolis editor who was shot and killed in December 1935, won a $25,000 verdict after an undefended libel suit against the Daily Worker, which had accused the murdered editor, no Trotskyite, of using his paper for blackmail. Last week, the New York Supreme Court granted the Daily Worker permission to enter a belated defense...
This means that any French War widow who has kept her money stowed away in banknotes in the family sock since she lost her husband in Joffre's heroic defense of the Marne has now been thoroughly, almost completely, swindled-and yet France has never resorted to "uncontrolled inflation" of the kind Germany went through after...
Seeking Divorce. Madeleine Talmadge Force Astor Dick Fiermonte, 45, widow of John Jacob Astor II; from onetime Pugilist Enzo Fiermonte, 31, her third husband ; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Grounds: extreme cruelty...
Hero is Jig's pal, Shelly Bayliss, a man's man, though he has a queer habit of saving money, not drinking or chasing women. Heroine is Florabelle, beautiful, long-legged daughter of the ritzy, skinflint widow at whose house Jig and Shelly are boarders. Halfway through the book Author Haines begins feeding his melodrama all the voltage it will stand. At the climax -a big train wreck-Author Haines throws his switches in time to save his hero & heroine for a wedding, but not soon enough to save his story from the unmistakable frying smell that goes...