Word: ans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In Vienna a shrewd, cantankerous old gentleman died at the age of 93. Throughout Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, stiff-backed, military men grew grave at the news, then flooded the press of Central Europe last week with waves of reminiscence. For General Anton von Galgotzy, of the Imperial Army of...
Came the War. Babies grew scarce in Nagyrev. On the other hand unwanted husbands were invalided home, parents, aunts, uncles continued to live to the embarrassment of poverty-stricken heirs, and Mrs. Fazekas continued to make essence of flypaper. Business expanded. She was soon forced to engage an assistant, one...
Busybodies in neighboring villages soon spread rumors about the firm of Fazekas, Csordas & Co. The rumors crystallized. Letters containing definite particulars of numerous deaths in the village of Nagyrev were sent to local police offices, finally to the district prosecutor of Szolnok. By his orders the body of an unpopular...
Pious Afghans rejoiced last week as their new king, Nadir, "the Afghan George Washington" (TIME, Oct. 21). re-established prohibition in harmony with the holy commandment of the Koran: God declareth unto you his signs, that ye may give thanks. 0 true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images, and...
"Any official of my government or member of Parliament who is found in an intoxicated condition." thundered Nadir, "will be stripped of his rank and severely punished."