Word: czech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main streets which were decorated with flags and evergreen. Prague's electric works reduced their rates by 35% to insure that the city's illuminations should blaze far into the night. Cardinal Kaspar, head of the Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia, went so far as to permit his Czech flock to eat meat all day Friday. Nothing was lacking to make the reception the sort that Carol most enjoys. There were champagne banquets, boy scouts, a gala opera, hordes of game birds to be slaughtered. Carol graciously returned all these compliments by ordering machine guns for Rumania from...
Though Clara Weatherwax spent her infancy in a papoose basket and though her name looks too good to be true, she is no made-over Choctaw or Czech. She claims descent from Roger Williams and 14 Revolutionary ancestors; her grandfather was a pioneer on the Northwest coast of which she writes. But her violent Marxian melodrama will never be recommended by the Daughters of the American Revolution. (The one Daughter in the book is a throwback, impoverished into sympathy for her Red neighbors.) Marching! Marching! obeys the law of Marxian fiction in having no hero but half-a-dozen protagonists...
There will be eight songs sung jointly while three will be sung by Harvard alone and five by Wellesley. Among the songs that they are to sing together are French, English, and Czech carols and Two Chorsles by Hach...
Ensued no great hunt but an extremely vital three-power conference on the situation created when Soviet Russia made a pact with the Czechoslovak Republic under which, if Russia is attacked, Red planes will be able to operate from Czech bases within striking distance of Germany and Poland (TIME, May 27). The Rominten conference last week was tentative and ultra hush-hush, but Eastern European wiseacres assumed that on the fire was a German-Polish-Hungarian air pact sure to enrage Moscow and of fateful significance in Vienna, where Austria's government keeps wondering just how long it will...
...return from Geneva to Prague Dr. Eduard Benes, perpetual Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, was greeted by the Czech Minister to Austria and the Czech Minister's dog, which bit Dr. Benes sent him to a hospital...