Word: chesse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Richard Reti, 40, of Prague, Czechoslovakia, famed chessman; in Prague. His record: 25 games of chess played while blindfolded...
...President Herbert Hoover of the U. S. who opened the statesmen's chess game at Geneva, last week, by advancing a sprightly pawn, Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium. The civilized world attended while dapper Mr. Gibson addressed the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission as follows: "It has recently been my privilege to discuss the general problem of disarmament at considerable length with President Hoover. I am in a position to realize, perhaps as well as anyone, how earnestly he feels that the pact for the renunciation of war opens for us an unprecedented opportunity for advancing...
There the chess-like battle which began again this winter between the Mother Church and the Parent Church, insurgent offspring, rested until last week. Then the Parent Church moved again. It was not a checkmate. But it was a startling, troubling move...
...majority of the characters in the book are a bit balmy−including the detective, Philo Vance, an arty fellow, who smokes Regie cigarets and says "amazin' " for amazing. Chess and higher mathematics are discussed and rediscussed until the reader, too, is a bit balmy...
This perhaps was unfortunate, for Senor Don Gilberto Valenzuela, who was Mexican Minister in London until late December last, is a really brilliant lawyer, a keen chess-player, teetotaler, nonsmoker, and a civilian, whereas Mexican governments are traditionally composed of militarists, traditionally corrupt. The nickname which his enemies have fastened upon him, El Capitan de los Cristeros, correctly indicates his Catholic sympathies, but is cruelly unjust in its literal connotations, "The Captain of the Christers...