Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...version of the reason of his resignation as Secretary of State was also promulgated (the common story is that he refused to sign the second Lusitania note to Germany). It was said that he had prepared a note to the Austrian Government (accounts of the new version differed as to the exact matter in question) which Mr. Wilson recalled and revised without consulting him, and that he thereupon resigned. Some doubt was cast upon this account...
...Sadowa or Königgratz (1866): battle in the Austro-Prussian War which ended the old German Confederation (composed of both German and Austrian states) and resulted in the North German Confederation, the nucleus of the German Empire. Sedan (1870): battle in the Franco-Prussian War in which the Emperor Napoleon III was taken prisoner. There was declared to be a "vacancy of power" in France, and the third Republic (the present...
Salm. In Vienna, Count Ludwig Salm-Hoogstraten was picked by the Austrian Tennis League to play with some of his fellow countrymen against a German team. Count Salm-Hoogstraten, bored, went to Switzerland instead. Thereupon the Tennis League suspended him indefinitely for "insuborination...
...validity of these generalities, Director Saint-Gaudens went on to describe the annual International Exhibition which will open in Pittsburgh in October. In addition to paintings from Spain, England, France, Italy, Sweden, there will be shown, for the first time since the War, a group of German and Austrian pictures. On the Jury of Awards will sit Anglada y Camarasa, Spanish painter; Ernest Laurent, French impressionist; Algernon Talmage, English landscape...
Probably nothing could have been farther from the truth, in the sense that the criticism was meant. Had she not waited these years for England to get over its feeling against Austrian artists? Does she not tremble, feeling inadequate, and cross herself 90 times, before going on in the most unimportant performance...