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Word: magyars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only well-known European language which even remotely resembles the difficult Magyar tongue is Finnish. Mainly for this reason, sentimental Hungarians consider the Finns "our northern cousins." Last week Hungarians were dismayed to hear of the Soviet invasion of Finland. At the same time fear of the Russians came nearer home with disturbing occurrences on their own Russian (recently Polish) frontier. Red Army soldiers, it was reported, fired on Hungarian sentries. More important, Hungarian military authorities seized large batches of Communist propaganda pamphlets shipped into eastern Carpatho-Ukraine, the mountainous district which Hungary grabbed from dying Czecho-Slovakia last March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Southern Relatives | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...worthy wearers of the public in a Central Europe torn by the jealous bickering of newly emancipated nationalities. Although Karl's abortive attempts to regain his Hungarian kingdom resemble a comic opera farce, Miss Harding's sympathetic understanding never fails to show his complete and sincere devotion to the Magyar people. Karl's efforts were doomed to frustration from the outset. Out of the wretched peace at Versailles came a new doctrine of brute force. Mercifully he did not live to see Vienna fall an easy prey to a remilitarized Prussia. Even as twilight descended upon the House of Hapsburg...

Author: By A. L. S., | Title: The Bookshelf | 10/4/1939 | See Source »

Significance: What these Hungarian inconsistencies suggested was that the Magyar aristocrats, willing enough to let Germany dictate foreign policy, were resolved to resist doggedly any real threat to their internal economic and political privileges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Left v. Right Hand | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...hands. The police questioned him on the sexy photographs and erotic books in his bedroom behind the upholstery shop, puzzled over his composure at the funeral, hounded him about the murders. But the police could not "break" him. Boasted he to Editor Paul Nadanyi of the Hungarian paper Amerikai Magyar Nepszava, who questioned him in Hungarian, "They can't break me-I have seven lives." By week's end, when the newspapers had begun to build Gedeon up to look like another Bruno Richard Hauptmann and the police had begun to bog down before three more unsolved murders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Murder for Easter | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...fines: the aristocrats sent their servants to fill the seats. Sisi's charm and beauty made some impression on the scowling Italians; but it was not till she reached Hungary that she tasted triumph. There she was almost too successful: Hungary went so wild over her that Magyar-hating Austria began to mutter. While she was on this trip, her first child died. Vindictive Sophie said, "The heavens punish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Franzi & Sisi | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

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