Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Look at those fat chaps gobbling and guzzling instead of getting us our savings back," screamed an irate female as she led her followers into the Reichstag restaurant. "Where is Count Westarp?" roared a voice. "We want Admiral Tirpitz," raved the crowd in unison. Not finding them, several women did the next best thing and roundly told a few handy Deputies exactly what they thought of them in the choicest German phrases...
Allegedly influenced by the damage inflicted to its reputation in foreign countries by the Jews, the Polish Government made an important agreement with the Jewish Poles. The accord was negotiated by Foreign Minister Count Skryzynski, who is shortly coming to the U. S., and Minister of Education Professor Stanislaw Grabski, acting for the Government. Deputies Dr. Thon and M. Reich represented the Jewish cartel in the Chamber of Deputies. Most of the credit for the move, which was thought exceedingly clever in Warsaw, was given to Count Skryzynski...
...follows then that the book runs the gamut of the sad story of the explosion of the last remnant of the Holy Roman Empire. One marvels, in view of all the enormous difficulties with which Count Burián had to contend, how the Austrian Government (the Hungarian Government voted against war) ever dared to expose the tottering Empire to what was a known peril...
Tottering Empire" is perhaps a facile expression. Austro-Hungary, had there been no war, might have survived several more centuries; for federative reforms were much in the mind of the murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The War, as Count Burián so graphically describes, shook the heterogeneous nation to its foundations; defeat completed the destruction...
Rayon was invented some forty years ago by a Frenchman, the Count de Chardonnet, who manufactured a lustrous fibre by treating cotton linters with nitric acid, and pressing the resulting nitrocellulose through small dies into a coagulating solution. Subsequently, wood pulp was employed as well as cotton linters as raw material, and other important improvements effected in the process. At first, rayon was known as "artificial silk," but so swiftly has its output increased that its trade name of rayon is now thoroughly established...