Word: austro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several ski clubs and professional teams will race with the college aggregation. The Austro-Swiss team, composed of some of the best professionals in the East, are favored to win first place...
...years Odon von Horvath lived in the shadow of a huge, sinister, apparently dead but always growing tree-the German State. He was born in 1901 in what was then Serbia, where his father served in the Austro-Hungarian embassy. He was educated in Budapest. During his adolescence the German tree trunk burned itself hollow with...
Died. Karel Capek, 48, No. 1 dramatist of Czecho-Slovakia; of influenza; in Prague. A student of philosophy (William James, John Dewey), Karel Capek played a leading part in introducing pragmatism and U. S. literature to the intellectual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. At the same time he wrote two plays, The World We Live In and R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), protesting against mechanization and the technical perfection of Western civilization. As an exponent of modern Czech literature and a supporter of ex-President Benes, he was in disgrace during the last few months...
Engaged. Princess Maria, 23, youngest child of the King & Queen of Italy, provisionally engaged for the last four years to Archduke Otto, Austro-Hungarian Pretender, on condition that he regain his nonexistent throne; now that all hope is gone, to his uncle. Prince Louis of Bourbon-Parma, 38; in Rome...
...18th was Guenther Gustave Rumrich, an Austro-American who deserted from the U. S. Army, joined the German intelligence service in 1936. Spy Rumrich turned Government evidence after his blunders, notably an attempt to get passport blanks delivered to him in Manhattan by describing himself over the telephone as the Under-Secretary of State, exposed the ring last February...