Word: hofburg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reactionary Hungary prepared for a step back 74 years last week. 1855. In her gilded coach the young, radiant, newlywed Empress Elizabeth rode out from the Imperial Hofburg, heard frightful screams from a nearby barracks square. They were men's screams. "Stop! Call the guard!" cried the Empress. "Something terrible is happening!'' "Your Majesty need experience no alarm," soothed a punctilious equerry. "This is merely the hour for flogging military delinquents." Flashing-eyed, the petite Empress insisted on alighting from her coach. Amid courtier consternation she actually walked the short distance back to the Hofburg, rushed impulsively...
...While the matter waited, there waited also for inspection the superb Kaiserliche-Königliche Hofburg (Imperial and Royal Palace), the onetime residence of Franz-Josef, and all the now decadent chateaux and pleasure resorts of the former Austro-Hungarian nobility. The night sparkle of Vienna is gone but its substantial daylight glories remain...