Word: frederica
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good a story as how the heroine of Pygmalion acquired the poise of a duchess but for the fact that it is utterly implausible. A squat, fervent, irascible Transylvanian, ex-farmer, cavalry officer and economist. Producer Pascal's best previous contribution to cinema was Franz Lehar's Frederica. His reward for the ripple of applause which it aroused in 1932 was a succession of minor jobs producing shorts...
Catherine the Great was not a Russian nor was her name Catherine. Born Sophia Augusta Frederica, the unconsidered daughter of a German princeling, she was brought up to be a pawn of European diplomacy; at 14 she was sent to Russia to marry her third cousin, Grand Duke Peter (half-German). For 17 years she lived at the Russian court, waiting for the aging Empress Elizabeth to die, waiting-what was worse-for her neurotic husband to make her his wife. The first nine of those years they lived together, and Catherine did her wifely duty as her husband...
Baptized. Marie Frederica Sterling, infant daughter of Frederick Augustine Sterling, U. S. Minister to the Irish Free State; in Dublin; by Patrick Cardinal Hayes of New York. Among those adding their blessing: Pope Pius XI, by telegraph...