Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comparatively small, consists mainly of one large circular room lined, except for a spot near the fireplace, with large windows. There are also a guard room, an electrically operated kitchen, and a balcony lookout. It is 6,000 feet above sea level, commands superb views of Bavaria and old Austria by night and day. The winds howl around it continually, white clouds float...
...Principality of Liechtenstein, a five-by-twelve-mile independent State in the central Alps between Austria and Switzerland, is dogged but slow. Back in 1866, when Liechtenstein decided to join Austria and go to war against Prussia, its Army...
When Count Ludwig Constantin Salm of Austria married Standard Oil Heiress Millicent Rogers in 1924, he was so broke that she had to buy the wedding ring. Last week, still broke and now divorced, he filed a petition in New York Supreme Court to have their 14-year-old son, Peter Salm, support him ($20,000 a year for himself, $10,000 a year for the expense of having his son visit, $35,000 for counsel fees). Reason: "It is the duty of a child possessing wealth to support a parent without funds...
Germany is less prepared for a game of bluff than she was before Munich, Marx stated. "The annoxation of Austria and the Sudeten area has presented the Third Reich with organizational problems of the first magnitude not solved thus far. Germany's Eastern neighbors, though nominally attached to the Berlin-Rome axis, are certainly no reliable partners in any military test. German penotrotion of Southeast Europe which she began with the emasculation of Czechoslovakia has not progressed beyond the first stage...
...dead and his head was off-stolen from his grave by ardent phrenologists. When the loss was discovered and the culprits pressed for its return, they surrendered a skull which passed for Haydn's. But it was not. Like a historic football, the real article was kicked around Austria for 75 years until it landed in a glass case in the Vienna Society of the Friends of Music. The Esterhazy family (on whose estate Haydn lived and was mostly buried) announced that until the skull was returned, no one could have access to the valuable collection of Haydn manuscripts...