Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from their quarters at Tobolsk to a more heavily guarded house in Ekaterinburg, says Bulygin. Moscow had already drawn up the plan for their deaths. As "Superintendent of the House of Special Purpose" came one Yurovsky. a "practical expert"; with him he brought ten Cheka gunmen (most of them Hungarian prisoners of war). At midnight. July 16. 1918 Yurovsky woke the Tsar and his household, asked them to come downstairs. Escorting them into a basement room, he told them that because of the approaching White armies it had been decided to move them farther away; the cars would soon...
...Engineering School, the Gordon McKay Scholarship will be awarded to Arpad A. Warlam, of Budapest, Hungary, a graduate of the Royal Hungarian University of Technical Science...
Died. Jeremiah Smith Jr., 65, Boston lawyer, financial savior of Hungary as League of Nations Commissioner General in 1924-26; in Cambridge, Mass. Unknown and at first distrusted by Hungarians, he stabilized currency, controlled revenues, floated a $50,000,000 loan. Given 30 months to put Hungary on her feet, he balanced the budget in six months, rolled up a $15,000,000 surplus in a year. He declined decorations and $60,000, which went instead to establish scholarships for Hungarian students...
Lick-lip melodrama from the word go. Paprika unrolls a rapid narrative of gypsy love, fistfights, Budapest night life, drunken officers, and a plethora of bedroom scenes. Paprika was the platinum-blonde bastard of a Hungarian nobleman and a gypsy queen. She grew up in the same wagon with Rogi, a young fiddler who loved her well. Paprika loved him too. but she was a wayward girl, and took delight in making him suffer. Unable to take it any longer, Rogi went off to Budapest, where he made a sensation as a musician and became the kept...
...arrived last week in Hungary's capital, did the rounds of Pest on the flat east bank of the Danube, then the rounds of Buda on its hill on the west bank. All Budapest joined the usual peekaboo chase after H. R. H.-all except the rickety old Hungarian aristocrats who spend their days steaming stark naked in the hot springs pool of Gellert's Municipal Baths in Buda.* There, far from the grand hotels and cafés of Pest where Edward was disporting himself, the old Magyars went on stewing in their own sweat, with...