Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first was to Vienna, to the ruins of the millennial empire whose prewar life he had affectionately reported, and to Soviet Budapest, where Béla Kun reigned and the Red Terror was on. ("I shall never forget Béla Kun as I now saw him at close quarters and cheek-by-jowl with his coterie of conspirators. . . . He had a round bulbous head and his hair was so closely shaven that he seemed to be bald; he had a short, squat nose, ugly thick lips, but undoubtedly his outstanding physical feature was his great pointed ears. Some people...
Died. Frederick Van Nuys, 69, Democratic (Ind.) chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary; of a heart attack; in Vienna, Va. During his eleven years as a Senator the short, plumpish anti-New Dealer had sponsored an anti-lynching bill, opposed Supreme Court revamping and the Third Term. His successor will be Samuel Dillon Jackson...
...about 700 years, magnetism has been known as the force that stands still. Last week a physicist claimed to have proved that magnetism moves. Professor Felix Ehrenhaft, formerly of Vienna, told the American Physical Society meeting in Manhattan that magnetism flows as electricity flows. If he is right, his discovery is at least as revealing as Benjamin Franklin's kite, and technology has a new horse to harness...
...husband departed with Roszika Dolly and husband, but soon returned for a Welsh rabbit. Randall slipped and fell, or was tripped and fell. His in-laws and party laughed. Randall marched over to the in-laws and issued a challenge to Downey. As the pianist played Tales from the Vienna Woods and the violinist played Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin', Randall threw a punch at Downey and someone hit Randall over the head with what he conceived to be a whiskey bottle. He was then carried to his hotel and given seven stitches in the scalp. Announced El Morocco...
Last week the real Leonardo, in all his masterly diversity, was better represented at popular prices than he ever has been before. Phaidon Press, formerly of Vienna and now of London, published a crown-folio-size book, Leonardo da Vinci, which was first-page art news for its broad inclusiveness, handsome reproduction, excellent taste and $4.50 pricing.* Included with the book's full gallery of Leonardo's paintings, drawings, mechanical designs and sculpture was a short foreword by compiler Ludwig Goldscheider and a reprinting of Vasari's classic 16th-Century life of the artist...