Word: franz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Although an eminently fine man, historically the late Franz Joseph was a failure", declared Dr. Alfred P. Pribram, professor of modern history at the University of Vienna, at an address last night to the History Club at Conant Hall. He pointed out that the young emporer, on coming into power in 1848, might have won out over the Magyars, but missed the opportunity of developing Austria into a united states because of his great desire to lead instead of help, and because of his concern over petty details of the present instead of foresight...
Frau Cosima Wagner-widow of the pre-eminent German musical composer, Wilhelm Richard Wagner, and daughter of Franz Liszt, of the Hungarian rhapsodies-is reduced to selling a number of her late husband's most valuable relics to keep the wolf from the door...
...tyrants is over: Constantine is off again, Franz Joseph is dead, Lloyd George has resigned and the Kaiser is married. Only one of the old crew of autocrats is still in full control of his subjects, and that is M. Paul Poiret, ruler of the world's better half. A whim of this foreign autocrat's and the appearance of civilization is changed without a murmur...
Wilbur.--"Liliom" by Franz Molnar. Joseph Schildkraut is a captivating "roughneck" and Eva LeGallienne the pathetic housemaid who loves him through ten scenes of an unusual play. Humor, pathos, farce, and tragedy mingle...
...from the conservative viewpoint, concerned with prudence. If it is desired to prove the point that our Government has become unfortunately somewhat class-biased of late, nothing could do it better than the continued imprisonment of a kindly old man like Debs, while men of the stripe of Franz Von Rintelen, German spy and bomb-plotter, are released. Nothing is better calculated to arouse the desire to shake the control of the owners of the means of production over our public life than such a spectacular example of the results of this control...