Word: goulash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...luncheon time approached I avoided the too celebrated local gulyas (goulash) but found delicious another Magyar dish, chicken spiced with various condiments. The afternoon was spent in exploring the old and modern castles of Buda and the shops, boulevards, subway, and parks of Pest. These two cities (Buda and Pest) lie on either side of the Danube and form together the Capital (Budapest). Since it was already late, the Royal Opera was indicated and fulfilled its reputation as among the finest in Europe." Vienna, Austria. "Four hours by rail sufficed to reach Vienna between breakfast time and luncheon. Grown used...
...career as the show-off dedicated in spirit to a vaudeville dance at the Palace Theatre but delighted to serve in the McKeesport Opera House. Sylvia Field, late of The Little Spitfire, adorns the chorus as his honorably beloved, a good girl who "doesn't know her goulash." So vital is the background, so artfully sustained the suspense, that Broadway runs its entire length without one flagging moment...
...winking brass bell knobs on front doors, the window-boxes and plush curtains, all speak of a civic pride that clings anxiously to dwindling incunabula. It is not a matter of tradition, for most of the old families have moved to Manhattan. "Foreigners" and their blowsy women cook goulash and whip children in the houses where 40 years ago candles shone in crystal girandoles, and violins complained all night. A newspaper writer recently referred to Brooklyn as the "City of a Thousand Freaks," and many of the throwbacks who still live there are queer sticks indeed. You see them scurrying...
...Major Kennedy for the Army, Captain Steele, Commander Klein and Commander Kraus for the Navy. "Monotonous and comfortable!" said they. They were not seasick. There was no dirt or dust. They played cards. They listened to concerts by radio. They slept soundly. They ate mock-turtle soup and Hungarian goulash with fresh vegetables. They were very lonesome without a cigarette. They missed a little water for washing and they?upon arrival?did not like their wives and friends to see their unsightly three days' growth of beard...
...Osborn: "A dramatic Hungarian goulash, greatly underdone...