Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Windsor were passed under the Great Seal. They are so drawn that the Duchess of Windsor and her children have full princely rank and the style of Royal Highness. This week the Duke, after intimations that the Rothschilds would like him to pay some rent for their castle in Austria (TIME. March 29), moved out. Journeying to a former pension or boarding house on the shore of Lake St. Wolfgang, where Edward of Wales and Mrs. Simpson stayed happily for a time in 1935, the Duke took up residence. He was obsequiously conducted from car to boarding house by officials...
...gives orders to everybody, shouts and gets furious if police, railway officials and the rest don't jump. The de luxe through express trains have to be stopped to put him down or pick him up from tiny ski stations, something neither the President nor the Chancellor of Austria would ever ask. He doesn't even spend money in Vienna. Yesterday he went shopping for jewelry all day, pawed over priceless things for hours, then made his only purchase at a hardware store-a 60? flashlight, because the night before the electric lights at the Castle went...
...Franz Werfel had written good books before that. Two of them (Class Reunion, The Man Who Conquered Death) reappeared last week in a collection of eight short novels and long stories ay Author Werfel. The world whose twilight is pictured here is the old, pre-War Austria; the crazy-quilt empire of 13 peoples, 24 countries whose imperial idea was embodied in one aloof, white-whiskered old man. Emperor Franz Joseph, says Werfel, was one of the few who understood the Idea, one of the few who foresaw its inevitable end. Werfel compares this Austrian idea (a "slowly absorbing...
...Richard Durrance, who first saw snow when he was 12 years old, liked it so much that he made himself the No. 1 skier of the country, won both the Amateur and Open downhill and slalom championships against a crack field that included Hans Hauser, three times champion of Austria, and Dartmouth's ski coach Walter Prager, who finished second to his protege in the downhill race...
...meticulous in announcing movements of members of the Royal Family, was a luncheon at Buckingham Palace last week of the Queen Mother, the King and Queen and the Earl & Countess of Athlone. This was to consider the draft of a financial settlement for the Duke of Windsor brought from Austria by Sir Walter Monckton, and the Royal Family had to face among other matters the Duke's demand that provision be made not only for himself during his lifetime but for Mrs. Simpson, irrespective of whether he lives or dies. Windsor was in irascible mood last week, perhaps because...