Word: austro
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other side of the sugar plum is that Austria needs desperately some such bolstering of her commerce as the perpetual League convention would provide. The factories and marts of Vienna once supplied the whole Austro-Hungarian Empire, and with that shorn away Vienna is choked with what she can produce but cannot sell...
Four child-Archdukes?Robert, Felix, Karl and Rudolph?donned small white surplices, swung fuming censers, and chanted a quavering treble litany, while there knelt in prayer before them the child-Archduchesses Charlotte and Elizabeth and the mother of these six children, Zita, onetime Austro-Hungarian Empress and Queen...
...sent him to the U. S. for a year immediately after the murders. On his return to his native land he received a large grant of land at Uskub, where he lived in affluence until his death. His part in the assassination, for which he was named in the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia, was restricted to supplying bombs from the royal arsenal in Belgrade...
...TIME, Jan. 24). With him arrived his mother, Zita, one-time Hungarian Queen and Austrian Empress. They came from the little fishing village at Lequeitio, Spain, where Prince Otto has grown up in exile, tutored by monks, supported by King Alfonso XIII of Spain and the contributions of loyal Austro-Hungarian nobles. As Otto's impoverished little suite descended at the Luxembourg station, they were met by a half dozen open landeaux, bearing the arms of Luxembourg. Whips cracked, the landeaux rattled merrily down a long avenue and over a viaduct, picked their way through cobbled, streets, drew...
...Vienna were published recently certain letters of the late Count Conrad von Hotzendorff, War-time Chief of Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army. They contain the assertion that in 1915 Great Britain offered to make peace with Germany, proposing among others the following terms...