Word: antone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pressburg, last week, judges sat in solemn conclave over nervous ascetic Professor Bela Tuka, famed savant, charged with high treason. Specific treason: attempting to carve Slovakia out of Czechoslovakia. Despite the fact that an alleged Hungarian spy, Anton Mras, swore loudly that his original testimony against Professor Tuka was false, Bela Tuka was sentenced to 15 years in penal servitude...
...came when the popular Slovene priest, Father Anton Koroshetz, onetime Prime Minister, was suddenly demoted by King Alexander from the important status of Minister of Communications to relative insignificance as Minister of Forests and Mines. Deliberately the Dictator-King had put off shelving popular Slovene Koroshetz to a moment when the Slovene people as a whole would be applauding Royalty's choice of a Slovene name for the baby Prince. Such a trick is typical of King Alexander, would only work of course on a people as simple as his peasants. Time after time His Majesty has employed...
...Another agitator: Edward William Bok, Philadelphia publicist, whose son William Curtis testified last winter before the House tariff-makers. Last week the Curtis Institute of Music, pet project of Mrs. Bok, announced a course in campanology (carillon-playing) under Anton Brees, carillonneur of the Bok carillon at Mountain Lake...
...that he should do so. On June 15 he was due to be in Cleveland, calling the world's attention to the marriage of his sober-minded son, Charles Jacob, to Miss Esther Mary Christensen, talented black-and-white artist, chic daughter of Danish inventor and Vice Consul Niels Anton Christensen...
...reputation for being "primitive." He is "primitive" no longer, but Les Noces is a perfect example of what used to be meant by that term. Written for percussion instruments, piano, four soloists and a chorus, it was given last week under the enthusiastic baton of Philadelphia Conductor Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski...