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...immovable Foreign Minister in all Masaryk cabinets. The firm of Masaryk & Benes escaped the country separately after the outbreak of the War. Immediately they began a great series of journeys to Paris, London, Rome, Petrograd, Washington, to convince Allied statesmen of the wisdom of lopping the ancient kingdom of Bohemia and surrounding Slavic territories from the prostrate body of Austro-Hungary to make a new republic. It so happened that this territory contained the rich rolling plains of Slovakia, the great Skoda munitions works, the potent Bat'a shoe factories, rich coal deposits, glass and steel works...
...Poland, Bohemia, the Ukraine and White Russia are the traditional lairs of vampires, living dead that sleep in their coffins by day, rise by night to suck the blood of innocent persons. Every Polish peasant knows that the only way to keep a vampire in its grave is to decapitate it, or bury it face down at a crossroads with an oak stake through the heart. This particular vampire was especially hideous, for several of the little girls had been raped...
...Sault Ste. Marie his pursuers were only three days behind their man. At Mercer, Wis. they actually caught up with him. There Dillinger and five of his henchmen, with three women, had rendezvoused in a roadhouse called Little Bohemia. Federal officers advanced on it in the night. Two big collies bayed a warning to its inmates. The Federals rushed forward. Three strangers, driving away in a car, failed to stop on command. Federal guns blazed. One man fell dead, two wounded, but none of them was Dillinger. From Little Bohemia came a machine gun volley and, behind it. Dillinger & gang...
...Yorkers last week were discovering a new place to have fun at night, the like of which had not been seen since the days (1928-29) when Author Christopher Morley was producing old melodramas on his "Seacoast of Bohemia" (Hoboken). In an old church on Manhattan's East 55th Street, last occupied by a congregation of Holy Rollers, a co-operative group of actors was presenting The Drunkard, or The Fallen Saved...
...Bohemia has built a beautiful lake in its Grove. Sculptor Haig Patigian designed the altar at one extremity of this lake, which is an heroically shaped Owl-the Club's insignia ("Weaving spiders come not here"). Here the captured effigy of care is oared from across the lake in a medieval barge, and laid on a funeral pyre, where amidst much colorful ritual, he is cremated, to bother man no more-until next year. He is not buried...