Word: budapester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Budapest, Hungary...
...aristocratic, 71-year-old Admiral Horthy has so little use for Nazis (although he visited Führer Hitler in 1938) that their opponents insist Hungary can become a Nazi state only over his dead body. Last December the aged hero got so mad at Nazi hecklers at a Budapest opera that he left his box, climbed upstairs to theirs directly overhead, would have assaulted them had detectives not intervened. Recent success of a book called Germany Can't Win, attacking Nazi theories of a lightning war, cheered Count Csaky's opponents: it plugged for Hungarian independence, damned...
...soft, spring evening, three years ago, Frigyes (Frederic) Karinthy, popular Hungarian poet, sat sipping tea in his favorite Budapest café. Suddenly he heard locomotives rumbling, reverberating, dying away. Startled, he raised his head. He knew there had been no trains on the streets of Budapest for 40 years. But he took no treatment for his head-splitting hallucinations until his eyesight grew dim, his legs shaky, his stomach rebellious...
After long, exhaustive examinations Budapest neurologists told the 47-year-old poet that an egg-sized cyst webbed with tiny blood vessels was sprouting on the right side of his brain, back of his cerebellum. If he did not have it removed in ten days, they said, he would become paralyzed and blind...
Three hours after the operation began, when Dr. Olivecrona was delicately prying out the red tumor from the flaccid tissue of Karinthy's cerebellum, the poet lost consciousness. Three weeks later, after an uneventful convalescence, happy Poet Karinthy went back to his Budapest cafés, heard no more nonexistent locomotives. But two-and-a-half years after his ordeal he died of a heart attack...