Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Victor Behar, of Glasgow, went to a quiet hotel and had his luggage brought up. In one suitcase he had a docket of papers, the pedigree of the rug attested by the curators of the Austrian State Museum and witnessed by the British consul in Vienna. It was at least 150 years old when the Shah gave it to Peter. Leopold used it as a tapestry in the bedroom of his summer palace. Other Emperors took good care of it; at last it went to the State Museum. French officials said that it was worth twelve million francs and taxed...
Alfred S. Austrian, member of Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt, Chicago law firm: "News despatches reported that one 'Happy' Martin, 20, able golfer, earns $100 per week caddying for me on my favorite golf course...
...impressionable clerk ever died to honor a less worthy lady. The Baroness' grandfather was one Baltazzi, "a dirty Greek," who amassed millions. Her father was one Baron Vetschera, a doddering Austrian diplomat with just sense enough to sell his title high. She, launched by a clever mother, became the siren who ensnared the Archduke Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, son of the Emperor Franz Josef...
...enumerate positive results, . . . the entire [Austrian] fiscal policy is again based on solid foundations; the League's loan to Austria is considered everywhere as one of the safest investments in Europe, especially because it is covered in pledged revenues and securities more than four times its value...
...Government employes, as rapacious a band of entrenched bureaucrats as were ever left over from an overturned monarchial regime. Naturally, Dr. Zimmermann has remained, since that heroic and salutary pruning action, one of the best hated men in Austria; a symbol to the unstable and irresponsible factions in the Austrian Parliament of all that is abhorrent to scheming politicians. That the good Doctor's staunch inflexible Dutch honesty and obstinacy have won out over so much intrigue smacks of a latter day miracle...