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Diary entry for 1916-07-06
... eine Frau, die klagt, gerade sie könne plötzlich zu keiner Milch kommen, obgleich sie seit 10 Jahren Kundin derselben Molkerei ist. Bei Hauser, Presumably the general store of Simon Hauser, at Kollergasse 15 in the third district of Vienna (Landstraße) ...
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Diary entry for 1916-08-07
... contra printing errors. Otherwise, Weisse's well written letter painted a faithful picture of the mood of the times. Letter from Floriz: our letter was forwarded to him and only just now reached him, as he is at present on holiday in Vienna for fourteen ...
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Diary entry for 1916-08-11
... 's handbook on thoroughbass accessible? In the afternoon, at work. Wilhelm Meister VII 3–4. The lady from Vienna declares that the English are "commendable" because – "they wash themselves"! For her, this evidently has more to do with the English role model ...
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Diary entry for 1916-08-12
... zur Sammlung der Brennesselstengel und -blätter (Vienna: K. k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1916). In the later years of the war, German and Austro-German citizens were repeatedly requested to collect stinging nettles as a substitute for cotton. zwar ...
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Diary entry for 1916-09-08
... , she boils water for tea on the spirit burner of Mrs. Baudrexel, who is not at home, and enquires of the municipal electricity company of Vienna whether she might be able to rent or buy an electric hot plate. King Alfonso of Spain: "… and so I have ...
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Diary entry for 1916-09-18
... , as a result of which I could develop the greatest attention. My brother's vanity causes him to forget that our mother spent the most time during her stay in Vienna with me; and even after she had gone away she received more visits from me than he ...
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Diary entry for 1916-09-30
... intends to formulate a cancellation in person, which she wants to embellish with a personal farewell. Today we celebrate the anniversary of Lie-Liechen's arrival in Vienna; yet the day demands what is due to it so severely that we have difficulty in ...
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Diary entry for 1916-11-11
... ? No; only because the impertinence already speaks organically against the concept of businessman. The mayor of Vienna, in a lecture, asks the Viennese populace not to live extravagantly. But he would not dare address this request directly to those ...
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Diary entry for 1917-02-28
... endlich auf Vrieslanders Neudruck C. P. E. Bach's Kurze und leichte Clavierstücke: Neue kritische Ausgabe mit erläuterndem Nachwort, ed. Otto Vrieslander (Vienna: Universal Edition, 1914). This is a modern edition of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's collection ...
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Diary entry for 1917-07-13
... be conducive to our work. (I refer, for example, to Lemberg as a place in which I could work even less effectively than in Vienna, which clearly has to be ruled out for me.) In the Tyrol, on the other hand, I am nonetheless closer to German people ...