Word: goulash
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...gave the new Rhapsody its first public airing. To play it Szigeti needed two different violins, Goodman two clarinets. To articulate Composer Bartók's complicated rhythms both Fiddler Szigeti and Swingster Goodman needed all the gumption they could muster. Because the rhythms were as Hungarian as goulash, perspiring Middle-Westerner Goodman never quite got into the groove. But Hungarian Szigeti went to town, rode his pony so excitedly he broke his E string...
...should have been Hungarian. For most of them were pupils of a great Hungarian fiddle teacher who happened to do most of his teaching in Russia: the late Leopold Auer. For many generations Hungary's lazy Danubian capital, Budapest, has been as noted for fine fiddling as for goulash and Tokay. Hardly less famed than expatriate Pedagogue Auer was the late Jenö de Szalatna Hubay, who stayed at home to teach other Hungarian fiddlers how to fiddle. Through aristocratic, white-bearded Hubay's studio passed many of the finest violinists in the world, among them Hungarian Joseph...
Beneath the upper crust of professional U. S. baseball is a goulash of minor-league clubs that range from Class AA down to Class D. Bottom crust is composed of 25,000 teams and 400,000 players rolled into an organization called the National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress...
What they study is far from clear, but the Royal Fraternity's creed might be described as a theological goulash of Rosicrucianism, Christian Science, Christianity, Supermind Science, faith healing and How to Win Friends and Influence People. As to the number of middle-aged ladies he has attracted, "the Christian Science Church doesn't publish the number of its membership," says Mr. Schafer; "Why should we?" However: "Our organization is unorganized. You can't define a thing like that...
When the hangman came to guess her weight, Frau Kardos screamed hysterically. But later she ate a large bowl of steaming goulash, passed the night on her knees praying. Next morning, before being led out to die, she drained several glasses of brandy rapidly, alternately wept and prayed until she mounted the scaffold...