Word: magyarized
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...luncheon time approached I avoided the too celebrated local gulyas (goulash) but found delicious another Magyar dish, chicken spiced with various condiments. The afternoon was spent in exploring the old and modern castles of Buda and the shops, boulevards, subway, and parks of Pest. These two cities (Buda and Pest) lie on either side of the Danube and form together the Capital (Budapest). Since it was already late, the Royal Opera was indicated and fulfilled its reputation as among the finest in Europe." Vienna, Austria. "Four hours by rail sufficed to reach Vienna between breakfast time and luncheon. Grown used...
Among his rewards were shooting the rapids of Ratisbon, lunching and gunning with Admiral Horthy at Budapest, tasting the fresh-distilled slivowitz (plum brandy) of Croatian and Magyar peasants waltzing in raw Bulgaria, watching out for the merry brigands of swampy Rumania. Though his name sounds like the handwriting oh the wall, Traveler Farson is a cheery, seaworthy person and a first-rate reporter. He saw a great deal that was significent as well as colorful and tells it very well...
...Properly speaking, the gypsies are a race by themselves, known in western Europe since 1417. In language and origin they are Hindus, speaking a corrupt Sanskrit dialect. Strong admixtures of Persian, Slavonic, Magyar and Greek blood and language were picked up in their migrations. As inhabitants of the ancient Greek empire or Empire of New Rom, they were identified as Romanoi before the prouder term Hellenes was assumed by the Greeks...
Yankee Jeremiah Smith, Boston's lawyer prodigy and Hungary's financial dictator,* sailed last week from his native land for the scene of his labors. He responded readily to the interrogations of the Amerikai Magyar Nepsava, a leading American Hungarian journal...
...chief claim to notice before the War was his marriage to Countess Katinka Andrassy, a daughter of Count Julius Andrassy, last Foreign Minister of the Dual Monarchy. The Andrassy family is one of the principal pillars of Magyar aristocracy. During the last century a Count Andrassy was Foreign Minister at Vienna, and considered one of the greatest statesmen of his time. Countess Karolyi, granddaughter of this famous statesman, was once considered to be the most beautiful woman in Europe. The beginning and the end of Karolyi's influence in politics lies between October 31, 1918, and March...