Word: budapester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many years I have been a subscriber to and cover-to-cover reader of TIME, and at last find an opportunity to write you. In your issue of Feb. 29, p. 36, third paragraph of last column, you mention that Rome, Perugia, Florence, Budapest and Berlin were renaming streets for George Washington...
...other Great Power can currently show, even on paper, such a surplus. During March moreover the pound sterling gained 20¢ on international exchange and held this gain last week. In Budapest His Serene Highness Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, would have been well justified in raising his tranquil "sea" eyes and drinking again to England...
...Budapest some years ago Jewish Andreas David wished to enter the University. He paid a fixer, one Stephen Karsay. who got him admitted despite a numerus clausus (enrolment limitation) ruling directed against Jews. Later Student David found that Fixer Karsay had taken a laborer named Ziesander Cripeler to a priest, had him baptized under the name of Andreas David. In spite of the fraudulent baptism certificate. Student David wanted to be listed at the University as a Jew. He did not wish to be a Christian even on paper. Last week the Budapest High Tribunal again postponed his case. Much...
Died. Anton Kozarek, hangman to the Kingdom of Hungary; of influenza developed from a cold caught while executing a robber and a murderer; in Budapest...
...cracked brain. His head hummed like a drunken beehive, but above that noise he heard the menacing approach of a blind man's tapping stick, saw visions of a beautiful porcelain woman who comforted him. To flee the blind man he hides away in an obscure hotel in Budapest, drinks brandy by the bottle, neat. Finally his longing for the porcelain woman overcomes his terror of the blind man. He leaves the hotel to try to find her in the world outside. Led by befuddled memories he looks to find her in one of his old mistresses, without success...