Word: rosa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Loewe grew up in a musical-comedy world. His father, Edmund Loewe, a Vienna-born operetta tenor, was the first Prince Danilo in the Berlin production of Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow, the Fair Lady of its day, was also Berlin's first Chocolate Soldier. Fritz's mother Rosa was the daughter of a Viennese Baumeister (builder) and a sometime actress who used lipstick and cigarettes in a never-never age when young ladies only pinched their cheeks for color, also added color to her life with a swift and exotic imagination. At 16 she had some people convinced...
Campaign workers grumble at Bobby's battering-ram methods ("Little Brother Is Watching" is a sub rosa slogan at San Francisco's Kennedy headquarters), but they work as hard as they complain. Says Bobby's father, Joe Kennedy: "Ruthless? As a person who has had the term applied to him for 50 years, I know a bit about it. Anybody who is controversial is called ruthless. Any man of action is always called ruthless. It's ridiculous." Bobby, says his father, is just dedicated: "Jack works as hard as any mortal man can. Bobby goes...
...Kaiser's army in World War I, but returned to Germany in 1918 to become a charter member of the German Communists' central commit tee, Pieck escaped to the Soviet Union the following year, when the committee's two leaders were slain (said one of them, Rosa Luxemburg: "Pieck was my most faithful, but also my most stupid student"), fled to Russia again before World War II. Coming back with the Red troops, the onetime carpenter was elected to the ceremonial post of President with a bigger vote (99.58%) than Hitler ever...
...Communists early adopted Spartacus, leader of the Roman slave uprising in 73 B.C.. as one of their own. In the turbulent aftermath of World War I, German Communists were known as Spartacists. Among them was Party Leader Rosa Luxemburg, shot for revolutionary activities by the German republican government...
...diplomatic and military adventurism of the Germany of Kaiser Wilhelm or Adolf Hitler. Last week, the misgivings his speech was designed to mollify broke out anew when Germany's allies learned that brash, beefy West German Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss had been negotiating a sub rosa military agreement with Franco Spain...