Word: wies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco, 60-year-old Francis Van Wie asked the Superior Court to remove him from a fruit ranch to which he was paroled after being convicted of bigamy two years ago. Van Wie, an ex-streetcar conductor who married 13 wives before the law caught up with him, wept as he explained his request: college boys, working on the ranch during the summer, kept calling him the "Ding Dong Daddy of the D-Car Line...
...cantons first learned from signal fires on the peaks that Habsburg rule had ended. This year as always, nearly all the day's eloquent oratory, in big cities or small hamlets, ended with the sentence from Schiller's William Tell: "Wir wollen frei sein wie die Voter waren" ("We swear we will be free as were our fathers...
Last week more than 300 bearded Amish and Mennonite farmers, Pennsylvania scholars and historians, guests from as far away as Manhattan thronged the Landis farm to attend the formal opening of the Landis Valley Museum. Awed neighbors in flat hats and black bonnets greeted each other in Pennsylvania Dutch ("Wie bist du Heit?"-"How are you today...
...future. Last week, long before she got to the inevitable Negro spirituals, Soprano Maynor showed that her future had begun. Her voice had rounded at the top, where it needed to; her knowledge of what she was about had deepened. Tenderly she sang Schumann's Du bist wie eine Blume, chicly she trilled a trifle of Bizet...