Word: czecho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until the spring of 1942 did Mrs. Stone confess. She explained that she had used the pen name Ethel Vance ("It sounds like a name you were born with and can't get rid of") because: i) her daughter Eleanor (Baroness Perenyi) was then living in Czecho-Slovakia, 2) Husband Captain Ellis Stone was U.S. Naval Attache in Paris, and use of the Stone name might have been undiplomatic. But the new name had already become fashionable. A few weeks after Escape appeared, Mrs. Stone's father hired a negro cook. "Name, please?" asked Father Zaring. "Ethel Vance...
...Saluted continued Czecho-Slovak defiance of the Nazis in a cable to exiled President Eduard Benes (in London) on the 24th anniversary of Czech independence...
...Vichy looked across France's borders, rumors came that if the Allies move on Casablanca, Italy will move on Tunis, Spain on Tangier and Morocco. Such moves might be called friendly. But Vichy remembered Czecho-Slovakia's friendly neighbors...
Francisco ("Pancho") Segura from Ecuador turned up in U.S. tennis two years ago as a two-handed freak. By mid-1942 he looked more like a two-handed champion. Every tennis player in the country whistled last July when Segura batted his way through the strong Czecho-Slovakian, Ladislav Hecht. 6-0, 6-0, 6-0. An urchin-like figure with a pigeon-toed slouch and a dark Indian face, Segura addresses a forehand shot as if he were about to kill it with an ax, often whirls so far off the ground that he seems to be swung...
...farmers of the sunny, floral little Mexican village of San Jeronimo, half an hour from Mexico City, have recently thought much of unhappier places. This week, following the lead of an Illinois town (TIME, July 20), they changed the name of San Jeronimo to Lidice, after the martyred Czecho-Slovak village...