Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hungarian border patrols, after the Czechs hastily drove off, acted on the theory that the only thing to do was to dump the Jews back into Austria, now part of Greater Germany...
...frontier strapping Greater German Nazis were more than ready to arrest, punish the tragic unfortunates for "illegal entry," but 15 Jews broke away and made for the Danube. They eluded Nazi and Hungarian pursuers and managed to spend the night shivering on a sandspit. In the morning a French patrol boat took them aboard, compassionately anchored in mid-Danube, awaited orders from new Premier Edouard Daladier...
Engaged. Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, 40, pretender to the Hungarian throne, divorced last year from his first wife, Irene Lelbach Rudnay; to Kathlin Bocskai, 22, onetime Hungarian schoolteacher...
Died. Christa Winsloe Homolka, 24, Hungarian actress and novelist (Maedchen in Uniform), formerly the Baroness Vally Hatvany; of blood poisoning; in London...
Zoltan Kodal's Te Deum reaches heights of beauty rarely heard in any music old or new. Although Kodaly wrote this work for a national Hungarian festival, there seem to be no definite Hungarian traits in the music. His style is, rather cosmopolitan. To speak of the weaknesses first, this modern composer is not a master of the fugue. His individual lines are strong and clean, but he is sloppy in combining them...