Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After singing English, French and Italian songs at the City Hall, Prague, Roland Hayes, American Negro tenor (TiME, Oct. 8, Music), gave another concert. His accompanist stated in the German language that the first number would be a Negro song. Up jumped an irate Czech and demanded: " What's become of the Czech language ?" Bedlam was let loose. The pianist repeated the announcement in English; the noise and confusion grew worse. Finally, Roland Hayes himself came forward and politely reminded the objectors that their money was waiting for them at the boxoffice. The intractable Czechs took the hint...
French "vives" and Czech "nazdars" rending Paris air in unison...
Propkop Maxa, Czech Minister to Poland, went to the Theatre Polski at Warsaw. He was at his ease with his feet on the backs of the seats in front of him. The audience objected. The diplomat insisted. The theatre authorities ejected...
...Edouard Benes, CzechoSlovakian Foreign Minister, said that the Government opposed the principle of retaliation but, in this case, felt constrained to resort to reprisals in order to bring to an end a long series of frontier disputes, one of which ended in the killing of a Czech customs officer...
...their representative character and their importance in the study of comparative literature. A second class is sets of periodicals: 42 volumes of "Listy Filogoicke" (Journal of Philology) and 25 volumes of "Wase Dola" (Our Times). Finally there is a large contribution of 92 volumes of the publications by the Czech Academy on philology in general and Czechoslavak in particular. Many of these last volumes are rapidly becoming unobtainable and were taken from the "iron drawers" where the last few copies of the books are kept...