Word: englishwoman
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...Austrian reception in Geneva last week an excited Englishwoman plunged down upon little Chancellor Dollfuss and fervently grasped his hand...
...German student named Wupperman, whom they suspected of photographing fortifications. Wupperman was released after brief examination, but the quiet dignity of the procedure was soothing to the pride of His Majesty's troops. It atoned somewhat for the undignified time they had lately had with another offender. An Englishwoman and her daughter had been attacked and troops had been called out to hunt down the attacker-one of Gibraltar's famed Barbary apes, last wild monkeys in Europe...
...brought up in ignorance of his birth. His new position enabled Stephen to marry well, prosper mightily in business. But he was haunted by his memories, superstitiously felt that his luck was too good to last. At length he fled secretly to the Malay archipelago. There he met an Englishwoman with a past as plaguey as his own and shared an island with her for three idyllic months. She swam out to the sharks when he asked her to share his hut. Heartbroken, Stephen returned to England to discover that his daughter had unknowingly fallen in love with young Nigel...
...telegram which the people of Bayreuth have feared all spring arrived there last week. The Bavarian telegrapher's face was solemnly long as he received the message over the wire, beckoned a boy to pedal down through the town and deliver it to Frau Winifred Wagner, the robust Englishwoman who guards the shrine of Composer Richard Wagner, her father-in-law whom she never knew. Frau Wagner had a feeling before she tore open the envelope that the worst had happened, that Arturo Toscanini had decided not to come to Bayreuth this summer to conduct at the Wagner Festival...
Alexander turned him down. Though he despised Lowenstein he liked the late, equally notorious Ivar Kreuger, would never admit that he was a crook. He fell in love with a young Englishwoman at Biarritz, but it came to nothing because she insisted on marriage and his wife would not give him a divorce. He became a spiritualist. Finally he did the accepted thing, went to the U. S. as a lecturer. At his first lecture (in a Baptist church in Grand Rapids) the unexpected strains of the Russian National Anthem made him blench. Nothing else in the U. S. seems...