Word: bohemias
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
President Eduard Benes' National Socialists (who favor, beyond Mickey Mouse, limited nationalization and limited Western orientation) have 54 seats. The People's Party (for capitalism and a strong Western-minded foreign policy) have 48. While Bohemia and Moravia turned left, Catholic Slovakia swung sharply to the right: the province managed to elect 48 Conservative assemblymen...
...more than half the way The Winter's Tale is harsh, high-busted melodrama. On flimsy grounds King Leontes of Sicilia (Henry Daniell) inflames his own imagination with insanely jealous suspicions of his Queen and Polixenes, King of Bohemia...
This yarn of all weathers-in which Shakespeare brought "dead" queens back to life, gave Bohemia a seacoast and tossed the wondrous stage direction, "Exit, pursued by a bear"-is not often, or easily, produced. Last week it got a fairly good production, turned out to be a fairly lively evening. If the hey-nonny-nonny sometimes breathed a desperate gaiety, most of the melodrama was pretty sound theater. And there were snatches of much-loved poetry (Daffodils that come before the swallow dares, and take the winds of March with beauty. . .). Most Shakespearean in reciting his lines (though...
This form of diphtheria is just as apt to attack adults as children. Even those who have been inoculated are not safe. The disease now flourishes in The Netherlands (4,000 new cases in one month) and Bohemia (1,700 cases in a month) and has made a start in Japan (over 3,000 cases in Tokyo this year). Inoculation is still the best way to fight it, but neither UNRRA nor the Army inoculates civilians. A few countries have managed to inoculate their schoolchildren, but grownups everywhere are taking their risky chances...
...factory. Strangers wandered in & out at will. But the explosions over Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought a quick change. The security police moved in, and Germans who had worked in the factory were rounded up, put back to work. Former officials of the Krizek Works were kept out. In northern Bohemia the Russians took over the Jachymov mine, famed for its uranium deposits...