Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frau Engelbert Dollfuss, widow of the Austrian Chancellor murdered in Vienna during the Nazi Putsch of July 1934, prepared to leave her cottage at Llandrindod Wells in Wales, seek refuge in Canada with her children, Eva, 10, and Rudi...
...last reports from darkest Austria, Kurt von Schuschnigg was still alive, had been spirited to the Nazi-guarded Wittelsbach Palace near Munich, after an attempt to rescue him from solitary confinement in the garret of the Hotel Metropole in Vienna. *"To pay $20 or $25 a bottle for what is known . . . as 'original Chartreuse' (that manufactured before the expulsion from France of the Pères Chartreux) is . . . to pay a matter of $15 for a superiority which simply does not exist" (Schoonmaker and Marvel, The Complete Wine Book...
...took three days last week for a great German force to move through Dresden, reputedly on the way to take up positions in the Reich's Slovak Protectorate from which to invade Hungary or Rumania. Other German forces massed to threaten Yugoslavia, and in the big hotels of Vienna anyone who dropped into conversation with a German officer was confidently assured, "We don't know at just what moment but we are going to march...
...tune this season has the lilt of last season's Yours for a Song (reminiscent of Johann Strauss's Tales from the Vienna Woods), and much like last year's are the smooth water ballets, the adroit diving acts, the custard-pie antics ashore & afloat. But by using scenes from the San Francisco...
Last week RCA Victor bowed its lordly head, issued the first of a series of re-pressings, at 75? and $1. Some were new to the U. S.: the Schubert Unfinished Symphony by Bruno Walter and the Vienna Philharmonic ($3.25 in an album); the Tschaikowsky Nutcracker Suite by Eugene Goossens and the London Philharmonic. Some, like the Mozart G Minor Symphony by the Chicagoans under...