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Word: czechoslovakian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...handsome gentleman friend, distresses her amiable prizefighting boy friend. But the drinking, lovemaking, gambling of the upper crust disgust her tender soul so much- that she returns just in time to cheer her prizefighter on to championship. A luridly punning sub-titier adds to the fun. Thus the Czechoslovakian princess is said to have "married twice but her Czechs were no good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Cinema | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

Some 60 correspondents assembled last week at Joachimsthal, Czechoslovakian spa. They ferreted industriously, almost hysterically, into the doings of three solemn gentlemen. The gentlemen met every day in a hotel at which the other guests were invalids gulping down incessantly glass after glass of curative, radium-active water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Little Entente | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

...religious reformer between John Wyclif and Martin Luther. Thereupon, Pope Pius XI grew vexed at such heretical festivities, broke off relations with Czechoslovakia, recalled the Papal Nuncio, while Prague recalled its Minister at the Vatican. Last week the Papal heart grew warm. A message hustled from Rome to the Czechoslovakian Episcopate, accepting Czechoslovakian reasons for participation in the Huss celebration, hoping that a reconciliation could soon be reached. Many Czechs are Roman Catholics, but they are also Bohemians-and John Huss is Bohemia's best beloved hero and martyr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: HERETIC OR HERO | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

Married. Frank W. Savin, 76, second oldest member of the New York Stock Exchange; to one Anna Mary Schleis, 41, onetime chambermaid in his home; in Port Chester, N. Y. She, Czechoslovakian and his fourth bride, assured the other servants that she would "still consider the members of the household my equals." Charles Edy Monroe, quinquagenarian, Mr. Savin's adopted son, apologized to newsgatherers for having imbibed a few too many "holiday spirits"; vouchsafed "You can say there will be no honeymoon trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 17, 1927 | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...created several new countries and one of them presented to the world a dramatist of recognized skill and undisputed worth. Karl Capek, Czechoslovakian dramatist, was introduced into America by his grim melodrama, "R. U. R." The public accepted it enthusiastically, but in a bewildered fashion. Then came "The Insect Comedy." And then, in the spring of 1924, the Harvard Dramatic Club presented Capek's latest play, "The Makropoulos Secret." This story of a woman who lived 300-years ran successfully in New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Historians Unfold Long and Honorable Career of Dramatic Club--New Production Is Under Way | 11/9/1926 | See Source »

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