ATD 695-723

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Zengg
German name for the town of Sinj, Croatia.

Uskok
Serbian/Croatian: fugitive.

the Macedonian Question
Raised, apparently, only among non-Macedonians. What boundaries are the Powers to create and which Power is to have dominant interest there?

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knout-fancier
The knout was a heavy whip used for punishment and compulsion in Russia. A knout-fancier is a sadist specializing in this instrument.

Capuziner
Cappuccino.

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IX Bezirk
The Ninth District (or Ward) of Vienna. Freud among many others kept an office there.

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non-Prussian, indeed crypto-Oriental, blood
Some writers were at pains to equate brutal Germans with Huns.

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Zsuzsa
Pronounced ZHOO-zha. Has TRP been watching "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy"? The artiste in maquillage will give Cyprian's hair a little zhözh.

atelier
Shop.

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vozdushnyi nablyudenie
Russian: as translated in the text, but the gender agreement is wrong (should be vozdushnoye).

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Beda Chanson‘s "Ausgerechnet Bananen"
Friedrich Löhner-Beda (1883-1942) was one of the most successful Austrian writers of lyrics for popular music and cabarets in the 1920s and early 30s, usually signing as "Beda" weblink. He translated/adapted Frank Silver‘s/Irving Cohn‘s song "Yes, We Have No Bananas" (released 1923 (!)) into german. While the original makes fun of a fruitshop-owner who cant say "we run out of bananas", Beda‘s german version is the lamento of a beau/Don Juan about the capricious demands - the fruit being the symbol of the exotic back then and hard to find in Europe - of the adored lady. "Ausgerechnet Bananen" translates as: "Of all things, bananas (Bananas she‘s asking of me)". english/german lyrics

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Liebling
German: darling.

Honigfalle
German: honey trap.

Dickwanst . . . Fettarsch
German: potbelly . . . fat-ass.

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