Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were four new U. S. offerings-a rambling Sonata by Henry Eichheim; a conservative Quintet by John Alden Carpenter; a hard, austere Trio by Roy Harris; a crafty Sextet by Edward Burlingame Hill. Critics preferred the things they had heard before-the earthy string sextet of Bohuslav Martinu, a Czech; the chromatic, well-knit Triptyque of Alexandre Tansman; the Canticum Fratis Soils of Charles Martin Loeffler. Carl Engel, one-time music librarian in Washington, asked Composer Frank Bridge if he considered any of the new works worth $500. Composer Bridge, a dry Briton, answered, "Well, Carl, don't forget...
...Born of Czech parents in Chicago 27 years ago, she took her first dancing lesson when she was 12. She danced in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1922, in This Year of Grace (1928). Two months of Hollywood under harddriving, gum-chewing Albertina Rasch were followed by a two-year break down. She is married to William R. Kaelin who is in the treasurer's office of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. She hates noise and night clubs, practices her dances an hour a day even when...
...last week who had anything but supreme contempt for the medical theories of "Dr." Oakley Smith and his 200 followers who helped him celebrate the 25th anniversary of Naprapathy. "Dr." Smith was a kind of chiropractor when he conceived these theories and invented the name "Naprapathy" from the Czech naprava ("correction") and the Greek pathos ("suffering"). Naprapaths claim that all disease is due to shrunken ligaments ("ligatights") pressing upon nerves. The naprapath tries to ease the pressure by manipulating the "ligatights," somewhat after the fashion of the chiropractor...
Thomas Masaryk created Czechoslovakia. As a professor in Prague he vehemently preached Czech and Slovak nationalism, got himself into bad odor with the Habsburg regime and finally, just before the War, teamed up with an able little man named Eduard Benes who was to become one of the shrewdest politicians in Europe and immovable Foreign Minister in all Masaryk cabinets. The firm of Masaryk & Benes escaped the country separately after the outbreak of the War. Immediately they began a great series of journeys to Paris, London, Rome, Petrograd, Washington, to convince Allied statesmen of the wisdom of lopping the ancient...
...success. Political France and political Germany may be at constant swords' points, the Polish corridor may inflame the Nazis, France may quiver at her lack of "security" from another northern invasion--but the lion and the lamb never lie down together with more good followship than these French, German, Czech, and Polish gentlemen when they come together to discuss, as follow directors, the problems of increasing Europe's consumption of armaments. Thanks to the activities of Skoda and its allics, arms form a full 10 per cent of all Czech exports--and 40 per cent of all Skoda's products...