Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Max Schmeling, onetime heavyweight champion boxer; and Anny Ondra (born Anna Ondrakova), Czech musicomedy and cinemactress; in Berlin...
...Carnegie Endowment for International Peace considered a Czech electrical device for analyzing chemicals so highly useful that it imported the inventor last week, let him pause only briefly in Manhattan, sent him post-haste to Berkeley, Calif. There he will be Professor Charles Bernard Lipman's house guest. After the University of California has Professor Jaroslav Heyrovsky for one month, he will spend another month at Stanford. Then Caltech will get him for two months. He expects those institutions, and many other rich ones, will buy his device. Enterprising Universities of Michigan, Chicago and Ohio already have them, only...
When Swedish Authoress Posse went to join her Czech fiance, Oki Brazda, in Rome in the spring of 1915, Italy was still officially neutral. Miss Posse had trouble-getting through Austria, but she got there. Then Italy declared war and Czechs, being officially Austrians (though most of them hated Austria) became enemy aliens. Authoress Posse married her Oki. followed him to exile in Sardinia, where he was interned. Sardinian Sideshow is the interesting, lively, not too personal account of the year they spent there. Not being considered at first an enemy alien herself, she made a trip to Rome...
Demure Actress Patricia Collinge shyly impersonates the kindergarten teacher. From the highly successful London production comes curly-headed Francis Lederer to act the innkeeper. He is a Czech. The friendly sound of South German English slips pleasantly from his lips. As she left the premiere, Cinemactress Constance Bennett was heard to remark: "Is he divine, is he divine or is he divine...
...While Czech police grimly looked on, a mass meeting of 10,000 Slovaks wildly cheered Separatist Father Hlinka who continued, "We Slovaks have our own traditions. We demand the dismissal of every Czech official in Slovakia...