Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shots that started the World War were fired on St. Vitus Day. When that day came round last week harassed King Alexander of Jugoslavia had harder work than ever to keep his subjects from celebrating with high glee the double murder that freed so many of them from Imperial Austria...
...stood with Princip!" cut in Editor Rupchich proudly. "The first shot killed the Archduke and the second killed his wife Sophie as she flung herself over him. Then I remember that Count Harrock of Austria rushed upon my poor friend Princip and split his shoulder to the bone with one blow of a sabre. Horrible...
Shocked British editors deplored Adolf Hitler's "gangster methods." Only head of a foreign state to comment was spry little Chancellor of Austria Engelbert Dollfuss, an extremely devout Catholic. "Does it not now become apparent," he observed piously, "that when one leaves the path of Christian thought, the path of Justice, one enters a path of Error from which there is no turning back? . . . Does not the light at last dawn upon us that one can not make a people happy with violence...
...forthright and fresh if his latest music is not. Strauss's enemies feed on his personal shortcomings. His conceit, they say, is enormous. To keep him in Vienna for four months a year, Austria gave him the Belvedere Palace, once occupied by the ill-fated Archduke Francis Ferdinand.* Visitors complain that to enter and see the composer they must first clean the soles of their shoes. Mercenary Strauss undoubtedly is. He lives carefully in his home in Garmisch near Munich. Where royalties are concerned he is a notoriously hard bargainer. At the beginning of his career he planned...
Near Klagenfurt, Austria. Peter Sussbauer blared his horn at a prim black cat mincing across the road in front of his car. The cat swelled its tail, arched its back, crouched, hissed, sprang from ground to running board, to door, to steering wheel, to Peter Sussbauer. Badly scratched and bitten around the neck, Motorist Sussbauer was hospitalized...