Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sovereigns of Italy, who behaved in every way as if their hostess were still an Em press. Getting down to brass tacks with royal directness, they proceeded to dicker, with Princess Maria sitting in, over whether Maria should marry Zita's handsome eldest son, Archduke Otto, the Austro-Hungarian Pretender...
...royalties finally agreed that the engagement of Maria and Otto should be made known as a fact but not published for the present in King Vittorio Emmanuele's Royal Gazette. Conceivably the wedding may turn upon whether Archduke Otto regains Austria's Imperial Throne or at least the Hungarian Royal Throne. When the engagement had been made de facto last week Zita and Princess Maria embraced, and Zita's seven younger offspring were presented to their prospective sister-in-law. Only then did the Italian royal motor slip away...
Aladar Kuncz, a young Hungarian teacher, was spending his 1914 summer holiday in a Breton seaside village. News of the War's beginning sent him scurrying to Paris, where with hundreds of his countrymen he besieged his consulate, tried to get transportation home or to some neutral country. Too late for the last train, he and his kind were interned "for the duration of the War." Luckily for them, they had no idea how long that was to be. After a few weeks' temporary detention in a garage at Périgueux. Kuncz and his comrades were sent to Noirmoutier...
...Author. A Hungarian of Transylvania (now Rumania). Aladar Kuncz had small reputation in his own country, was unknown outside. But his friends knew he was an essayist, biographer, a knowledgeable connoisseur of literature. In poor health, he worked away at Black Monastery, his one big book, lived to see it published (May 1931) seven weeks before his death. Though the Versailles Treaty whittled Hungary down to an impoverished fraction of its pre-War self, 20,000 copies of Author Kuncz's last testament have been sold there...
...knew him. But when the last of these shall have died, the legend of Liszt's piano playing will not be enough to keep his memory alive. Thereafter he will be remembered, if at all, by his compositions. Most often heard nowadays are his hackneyed Second Hungarian Rhapsody, his A flat Liebestraüme. Concertgoers know his B minor Sonata, a few of the Poemes Symphoniques, a half dozen of his arrangements and transcriptions. The immortality of his fame depends upon the repetition of those compositions, the possible resuscitation of other Liszt pieces now almost forgotten...