Word: pressburg
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...second attempt to snatch the Crown of St. Stephen for one of her blood. Before the War she tried, with the consent and active encouragement of doddering old Emperor Franz Josef, to marry one of her daughters to the heir apparent, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. At her palace in Pressburg, where he had been invited to fall in love with her daughter, the obstinate young man conceived a blind passion for Sophie Countess Chotek, a mere lady-in-waiting to Isabella...
...Consider whether all territory adjacent to the frontier in which Hungarians number more than 50% of the population should not revert to Hungary. Exception: Czechoslovakia will not consider giving up the vital Danube port of Bratislava, once Hungary's Pressburg...
...Pressburg, last week, judges sat in solemn conclave over nervous ascetic Professor Bela Tuka, famed savant, charged with high treason. Specific treason: attempting to carve Slovakia out of Czechoslovakia. Despite the fact that an alleged Hungarian spy, Anton Mras, swore loudly that his original testimony against Professor Tuka was false, Bela Tuka was sentenced to 15 years in penal servitude...
...agency too casual to be revered and too dubious to be trusted. That suggestion is implicit in the affairs of the Jewish family Rakowitz. Babette, afterwards the first Mrs. Rakowitz, used to march each evening, attended by two white trouser-legs, to the camp of the Emperor Napoleon at Pressburg. She bred and ruled many Rakowitzes, passed her domineering spirit down through seven generations of Rakowitz women who overruled seven generations of Rakowitz men. The book is an extraordinary graph of the involved ganglia, the subtle criss-crossing veins, the interwoven tissues of a great family. It is written...
...became steward to the Countess Sapáry, a position which he subsequently lost owing to a quarrel with that good lady, who vindictively charged him with stealing money to pay his gambling debts. Soon after this he became the representative of Count Hungárdy at the National Diet in Pressburg (dissolved...