Word: czechoslovakian
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...other hand the show was most effective in demonstrating how different designers handle the same play. There were settings for Hamlet by the Soviet Nicolai Akimoff, the Austrian Oscar Strnad; the Czechoslovakian Vlastislav Hofman; the German Hans Poelzig, Robert Edmond Jones, Donald Oenslager and Lee Simonson of the U. S. Emperor Jones was set by Cleon Throckmorton, Donald Oenslager of New York; Walter Rene Fuerst of Paris; Vlastislav Hofman of Prague. Other highlights among the exhibits...
...with the inscription : "I prom ise. Tommy." Tommy has kept his promise like the crown prince of shoedom that he is. He lives with his mother and drinks quantities of milk. Aged 19, he has escaped most formal schooling and examinations but passed the Czechoslovakian Government's test for the certificate of "master cobbler." After a trip to the Bat'a shoe outposts in Africa and apprenticeship in Bat'a facto ries in Switzerland and Germany Tommy is working through the plant at Zlin, department by department. Now & then he makes a night of it with...
...Fiscal experts of the U. S. delegation ventured a plan for temporary stabilization of the dollar, withdrew it; and the Press reported that. C. U. S. Delegate Morrison had never heard of famed Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister Benes; and the Press reported that...
...inquisitive crowd of neighbors and newsmen last week clogged Hastings-upon-Hudson's unpaved Ridge Street to watch a motorcycle patrolman and a physician try to enter the residence of Mr. & Mrs. John Vasko, first-generation Czechoslovakian immigrants. The Vaskos had locked in themselves and their three children against invasion, barricaded their doors with furniture, prepared tubs of boiling water with which to douse anyone trying to force an entrance...
Among the names borne by millions of European males, including the Kings of Italy, Belgium and Bulgaria, is grand old Mary. In Prague last week the Czechoslovakian Supreme Court made name-history, handed down a decision barring Czechoslovaks from having "girls' names" if they are male-and vice versa. "Every given name," ruled the Supreme Court, "must indicate with clarity the individual's sex." Cited by the Supreme Court as particularly obnoxious and explicitly barred to Czechoslovak males are all combinations of names containing "Mary," such as the common "Erich Maria" and "Ludwig Maria." Reason why so many...