Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turned to a brilliant civil career; but, alas, the military tradition of Prussia demanded as Crown Prince a dashing cavalry officer. Worse still his mother, Victoria² (daughter of British Queen-Empress Victoria), was repelled by her son's deformity, hated him, and once remarked inhumanly to an Austrian nobleman: "You can scarcely imagine how I admire your handsome, intelligent and graceful Crown Prince³ when I see . . . my uncouth, lumpish son William...
...arrangement with Donald S. Friede, vice president of Boni & Liveright, publishers, he has come to his native land to give a concert in Manhattan on April 10. With him comes his wife, niece of Austrian Playwright Arthur Schnitzler. He is accompanied also by an amazing record. Every concert of his given in Europe has been crowded. For three years people have been turned away for lack of room in the halls whence his queer sounds emanated...
...very marked and some ugly details of how Rumania deals with her Jews (TIME, Dec. 13) came to light when Queen Marie threw the spotlight of world interest full upon the Danube. Last week repercussions of this anti-Semite movement prompted an article in Harpers Magazine by the Austrian publicist Josef Bard. Striking shrewdly at the roots of antiSemitism, Herr Bard postulates five attributes possessed by Jews which give them an advantage over Christians in the modern competitive life struggle...
Radio sets attuned to WJZ one night last week caught neither bedtime Fuchs (the Austrian who drew Edward VII's portrait for British postage stamps) had the air. Sardonic, whimsical, he said...
...Alfred Adler, an Austrian psychologist who recently arrived in this country will speak at the University on Saturday. Dr. Adler, who is one of the leading members of the group of modern psychologists at Vienna will lecture on the subject "Individual Psychology and Education." The meeting which is under the auspices of the Graduate Education Club will be held in the Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock...