Word: tyroler
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...swift-rushing River Salzach in the Austrian Tyrol lies Salzburg, rimmed on three sides by operatic-looking mountains. There Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born and there on a lake outside the town Max Reinhardt owns a baroque castle, where he long ago began giving sumptuous parties for his troupe and for such visitors as Arturo Toscanini, Feodor Chaliapin, Paul Drennan Cravath, Greta Garbo, Edward of Wales...
...innkeeper at Kitzbuhel in the Tyrol charged the vacationing Prince of Wales $13.10 for a bottle of whiskey and the Austrian Government, taken aback, formed a commission to control all future liquor prices...
Oscar Florianus Bluemner comes from Hanover, Germany. His father was an architect who had built up a nice practice in Italianate brick churches in the south Tyrol. At the age of 18 Oscar Bluemner gave his first portrait exhibition in Berlin, shortly afterward won medals at the Royal Academy where he was studying painting and architecture. In 1892 an artistic argument with the All Highest, Wilhelm II, caused him to leave Germany suddenly for the U. S. For two years he lived in Bowery flophouses, working as a bartender when he could, selling packets of needles on the sidewalk...
Fine Arts: "The Blue Light"--Directed by Leni Riefenstahl, this picture is known particularly for its outstanding and remarkable photography. The dialogue is in Italian and German, with English titles. There is no cast, and the local color is supplied by natives of the Italian Tyrol, where the picture was taken...
...Benito Mussolini. He offered to send any number of Italian Carabinieri into the Saar at once. Taking thought, Saar authorities refused this, feeling that the injection of Italian-speaking troops into this Franco-German stew would only make matters more difficult. Il Duce had another idea. The South Tyrol (except for the Trentino), and the country back of Trieste, taken from Austria after the War, still speaks mostly German. He would recruit a special force among the mountaineers who could talk back to the Saarlander but had only an academic interest in their problem. The League accepted with alacrity...