Word: wienerwurst
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...improper fare for Austrians under 16 years of age and "calculated to mislead the youth of the country." Austrian royalists had tried to arouse some enthusiasm for Der Alte Kaiser fortnight ago during bourgeois Vienna's enthusiastic celebration of the 125th anniversary of the introduction of the Wienerwurst, by broadcasting the fact that Franz Josef's breakfast was almost invariably a pair of sausages, a portion of horseradish and a mug of beer. Last week they did their centenary-celebrating in Hungary, which with recurring rumors of 17-year-old Archduke Otto's enthronement in November, grows daily more Habsburg...
Peddling strings of Wienerwurst on the sidewalks of Vienna, selling life insurance, and finally keeping a grocery store, have been the occupations since 1918 of His Royal Highness the Archduke Leopold of Habsburg,* second cousin of Emperor Franz Josef...
...glass cases in a restaurant in Berlin were stretched two men, thin, weak, but happy. They, Otto Klein and Max Kramer, were enduring a fast. People around them ate beefsteak; Herr Klein and Herr Kramer sipped Vichy water. Patrons of the restaurant devoured schnitzel, wienerwurst; Herr Klein and Herr Kramer smoked cigarets. For 45 days this painful scene went on, greatly to the advantage of the restaurant. On the 45th day Herr Klein and Herr Kramer were lifted from their cages. They had beaten by a day the world's record fast of 44 days set by Herr Jolly...
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