Word: budapests
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...cracked brain. His head hummed like a drunken beehive, but above that noise he heard the menacing approach of a blind man's tapping stick, saw visions of a beautiful porcelain woman who comforted him. To flee the blind man he hides away in an obscure hotel in Budapest, drinks brandy by the bottle, neat. Finally his longing for the porcelain woman overcomes his terror of the blind man. He leaves the hotel to try to find her in the world outside. Led by befuddled memories he looks to find her in one of his old mistresses, without success...
...often wishes that he could have shared in the tension and dynamic optimism which swept Europe like a flame in those two glorious years of revolution. The world made heroic gestures which were to crumple at the touch of steel, but the story of Rome and of Vienna, of Budapest, and Paris, was written too well to be obliterated under the returning tide of military autocracy. A Hapsburg was still on the throne of his conglomerate empire, a Bourbon swaggered in Naples, and a saddened Pope told his beads once again in the Vatican, but despotism...
...Rome, Perugia, Florence, Budapest and Berlin, streets were renamed for George Washington. In Kobe, Osaka and Kyoto cherry trees were planted in his honor. At Paris, Naples and Sofia there were public receptions. President von Hindenburg of Germany felicitated President Hoover. Throughout the U. S. there was much patriotic ado. Reason: the 200th anniversary of his birth...
...degrees he has received from Columbia, Syracuse, Tulane, Johns Hopkins, Princeton, Penn sylvania. Yale. Chicago, St. Andrews, Manchester, Cambridge, Williams, Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown, Toronto, Wesleyan, Glasgow, State of New York, Oxford, Breslau, Strassburg, Nancy, Paris, Louvain, Prague, King's College (N. S.), Rome, Charles (Prague), Szeged (Hungary), Budapest, California.? His first doctorate he took at Columbia at the age of 24, with a dissertation on the History of Logical Doctrine. Making all knowledge his province, he instructed in education and philosophy, became at 30 the youngest full professor of philosophy Columbia had ever had. One summer he helped...
...portraits in last week's show was of a dark and spectacularly one-eyed Hungarian nobleman, Count Laszlo Szechenyi. Count Laszlo Szechenyi is no relative of Painter de Laszlo who was humbly born at Budapest in 1869. After a few years in Budapest Industrial Art School, he stopped doing things humbly. At 25 he was summoned from Paris to the summer palace of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria to paint the Archbishop Gregorious. His portraits of the Archbishop, the Prince and his wife, gave his work the cachet it needed. Since then he has immortalized almost the entire Almanack de Gotha...