Word: austria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...branch of the Denbigh family which until lately was supposed to be related to the Hapsburgs. To this claim is to be attributed the famous passage in Gibagg's "Autobiography," which predicts for "Tom Jones" "that esquisite picture of human manners"--a diuturnity exceeding of the House of Austria...
With the crumbling of Austria-Hungary he proved himself adaptable to new conditions and became within two years the undisputed leader of the Christian Socialist Party...
From that vantage point he scanned the then desperate financial morass of Austria and displayed the courage, vision and leadership to persuade his people to seek financial rehabilitation through virtually placing the national finances in the hands of a receiver: The League of Nations. As everyone knows League fiscal control of Austria was terminated only this year (TIME, July 12) after the country had made one of the most sensationally rapid fiscal recoveries in history. Perhaps never before did a statesman lead his people in the unprecedented course of placing their national purse strings in foreign hands...
...Actually the "conservative" party of republican Austria. From this misnomer arises the paradox presented by Chancellor Seipel when, though a Socialist, he dons ecclesiastical robes and celebrates mass as the politico-religious hero of Austrian Catholics...
...unabridged translation?Boni & Liveright ($3.50). The man of today is stamped as a barbarian by nothing so indelibly as by his abandonment of the art of dining well. That art reached its apogee a century ago in France. The great Careme, chef successively to the courts of Russia, Austria and Britain, and to the Rothschilds, probably then achieved in his sauces the ultimate refinement of la haute cuisine ("high cookery"?superb food). "I would eat my own father with sauces such as these," ex- claimed the celebrated glutton Grimod de la Reyniere...