Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Autonomous status for the province of Slovakia was provided by a bill which the Chamber passed and the Senate will approve this week. The Chamber likewise approved an autonomy measure for the third part of the federated Republic, Carpatho-Ukraine (formerly Ruthenia). Meanwhile, Polish and Hungarian bands, still hoping to split the province between their nations, last week crossed its borders and carried on terrorist attacks against the Government...
Engaged. Princess Maria, 23, youngest child of the King & Queen of Italy, provisionally engaged for the last four years to Archduke Otto, Austro-Hungarian Pretender, on condition that he regain his nonexistent throne; now that all hope is gone, to his uncle. Prince Louis of Bourbon-Parma, 38; in Rome...
Most of today's famous fiddlers are Russian. By rights they 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...
Four years ago aging Pedagogue Hubay was delighted by the playing of a 13-year-old, mop-headed youngster fresh from the Budapest Conservatory, and decided to take him as a pupil. The youngster, a Yugoslav of Hungarian parentage, named Robert Virovai, soon had all Budapest talking. Last year, just before he died, crotchety 78-year-old Hubay, who in his time had heard his share of fiddling, shook his head feelingly and said, "Young Virovai plays so beautifully as to astonish even...
KOMAROM, Czech-Hungarian Frontier--Regent Nicholas de Horthy of Hungary, riding a prancing steed, today led a column of Hungarian cavalry across the Danube and into this medieval town where he formally claimed 4,787 square miles of territory surrendered by Czechoslovakia...