Word: szechenyi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Count Laszlo Szechenyi, the Hungarian Minister, took his wife, who was fashionable Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, to Newport, R. I., and there, amid surroundings thoroughly familiar to her, established his little diplomatic court. A veteran diplomat, he well knows the impossibility of escaping Washington's torridity in Washington...
...Count & Countess Szechenyi enjoy a Washington popularity second only to that of the British Howards. Their summers alternate between Newport where the Countess's mother, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr., resides grandly at "The Breakers," and the Count's estates in Hungary. On his last trip home, the Count had a bad automobile accident, suffered the loss of his left eye. Light-hearted despite this, he still rides and drives his car, plays his "fair" game of golf. In Washington the Szechenyis take their social and diplomatic duties most seriously...
...hostesses strive hardest to bring to their dinner tables the diplomats: Belgium's Prince de Ligne, Canada's Vincent Massey, England's Sir Esme Howard, Cuba's Señor Ferrara, Germany's Von Prittwitz und Gaffron, Hungary's Count Szechenyi, France's Paul Claudel. Less smart, but kept quite busy, are Austria's Prochnik, Italy's de Martino, Japan's Debuchi,* Mexico's Telles, Spain's Padilla y Bell. After them, courted by hostesses on their way up or down, come the Balkan and Latin-American diplomats...
Hungarian Minister Count Laszlo Szechenyi, to present friends. British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard, to present friends...
Count Lazlo Szechenyi, Hungarian Minister to the U. S. and husband to the onetime Gladys Vanderbilt, arrived in Manhattan on the Acquitania. Ship-news reporters rushed up to him hoping for a felicitous utterance, since friends of Count Karolyi have credited the Hungarian Minister with inspiring the State Department's attitude toward the Karolyis, Count and Countess. The reporters blurted their questions. The Minister diplomatically replied: "The exclusion of that man is a matter for your State Department...