Word: tyrolean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifty years after he was born in the Tyrolean Alps in Ruttka, Austria (now Czechoslovakia), John Daniel Hertz retired from business. He had enjoyed the fight to get rich; but, now, why bother about it any longer? He has a pleasure-loving wife who, in turn, has a stable full of fine horses, including Reigh Count, winner of the Kentucky Derby, now in England getting primed for more victories. Wherever Mr. Hertz goes in the U. S. he can ride in the taxicabs which he has made numerous, famous, inexpensive. He is going to Florida, to Europe...
...MIRACLE BOY?Louis Golding ?Knopf ($2.50). Under the jacket, on which a jaundiced little shaver is pictured wading through a swamp of flowers, lies the story of a Tyrolean peasant, who, instead of a halo, carried a raven on his shoulder. Hugo Harpf, imagined as a very recent saint, toiled in his village, loved a peasant's daughter, went to Munich to learn how to paint and came home to work miracles. For this he was first killed and then worshipped. In its intention the story is not so much a satire as a critical footnote on the life...
...costume of the puppet Faust, compared with Haas groping to move his own dolls as freely as dance the marionettes, and the complete harmonious development of each strand of story upon itself and upon every other strand is clothed in the descriptive melody of surrounding Salzaburg and the Tyrolean Alps...
...enthusiastic tipsy Tyrolean in Zurich, falling in love with Peoppel- man's statue of Spring in a theatre lobby, tried to carry off the maiden in his arms, but she fell and crashed to ruin. Realism has seldom had such a testimonial...