You know how these stories are ...maybe un-confirmable ....but it is said that ~
Madame Schumann-Heink, the Czech contralto who was thought to be a little portly, was at dinner one time. The waiter brought to her table a platter with a huge steak. One of her dinner partners said, "Madame, are you eating that steak alone?"
"Why no," she said, "mit potatoes!"
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Another time she was having difficulty getting through a narrow passage. Someone near her suggested that she would be able to get through if she would turn sideways.
"I haff no sideways!" she answered
2007-07-25
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