Word: austro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first intimation of his existence. Died. John W. Alden, 77, direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden, famed Pilgrims; in Duxbury, Mass. Died. Baroness von Vetsera, 78, mother of the beautiful Countess Marie von Vetsera, who, in 1889, was found dead with Crown Prince Rudolf, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in his hunting lodge near Vienna; at Payerbach, near Vienna, where she lived in seclusion. Died. Edmund Plummer, 93, last of the boys who suffered under Schoolmaster Squeers, immortalized in Nicholas Nickleby; in London, on the 113th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth...
...Federation of all states along the banks of the Danube (CzechoSlovakia, Austria, Hungary, Yugo-Slavia, Bulgaria, Rumania) and old idea opposed strongly by Foreign Minister Eduard Benes as a tendency towards restoring the Austro-Hungarian hegemony...
Professor Shotwell's assistants were recruited rather from among economists and men of affairs than from historians. In England, the board includes Sir William H. Beveridge, John Maynard Keynes, Professor W. R. Scott. In France, Professor Charles Gide, M. Arthur Fontaine, Professors Henri Hauser and Charles Rist. The Austro-Hungarian Chairman is Dr. Friedrich von Weiser. Of the collaborators, 25 have held cabinet offices...
Countess Michael Karolyi, née Andrassy, was once considered the most beautiful woman in Hungary, where a very large proportion of women are beautiful. She is not yet 30 years of age and is the step-daughter of Count Julius Andrassy, last Foreign Minister of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and a granddaughter of the famous Count Julius, who was the greatest Minister of State that the Monarchy had had since the passing of Metternich...
...celebration was a riot of modernistic delicacies. Arnold Schpnberg, Florent Schmitt, Sergei Prokofiev, Ernest Bloch, Arthur Honegger were all well represented by new works, guaranteed to irritate unaccustomed ears. A new composer of unquestioned merit was also brought to light oh this occasion. He is Alexander von Zemlinsky, an Austro-Czecho-Slovakian. His Third, or "Lyric", Symphony was performed; its seven long movements are all built around a single leading motif: the theme of "a man bent on conquest and adventure, to whom love is but an episode in a life of combat and struggle." Zemlinsky used a baritone voice...