Chapter 27

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"Toilets I don't mind"
toilets being slang for very low-class (dirty, dingy, etc) establishments at which musicians sometimes play.

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czardas
A Hungarian folk dance with changing tempo that starts slow and ends fast.

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mad bomber Matuska
Szilveszter Matuska. In September 1931 he blew up the Vienna Express causing many causalities. He confessed to this crime and was implicated in one other successful and two unsuccessful bombings.