Word: ha
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Across the street is the Ha'Penny, downstairs from the Blue Parrot and Ferdinand's. This is a solid Harvard graduate student hangout today, often heavy on the Loebies (it is not too far from the Loeb). The drinks are good, the atmosphere resembles a good House grill, the prices are reasonable, and the Ha'Penny is another good place to go with friends. It seems to be doing a real prosperous trade, since it is crowded on weeknights and weekends...
...brought in what they thought was a "Communion tray" learned that it was an enamel punch bowl crafted by a czarist court silversmith, worth up to $15,000. A Manhattan secretary who produced a battered pottery dog used as a plaything by her children was informed that it was Ha'n dynasty (206 B.C.A.D. 220) porcelain, worth $5,250, which might have fetched $25,000 if it had not been damaged...
...vejk revisited seems a timely project, especially since it introduces the book's creator, who uncannily resembles his own hero. Jaroslav Hašek's father died of drink in 1896 when the boy was 13. Hasek became a dropout, vagabond, drunk and professed anarchist. He was constantly in trouble and often in jail. Like Švejk, too, he was less political than impudent...
...sounding name. On the accompanying police questionnaire, he gave as his reason for being in Prague, "to investigate the activities of the Austrian general staff." The police at once surrounded the hotel. They discovered that the Russian name spelled backward came out in Czech as "Kiss my arse." Blandly Hašek explained that he just wanted to see if the Austrian police were on their toes-and got off with five days in jail...
...Eyes Right." After that Hašek was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army. He deserted to the Russians, converted to Bolshevism and became a commissar. Later, he gave up the Party and drifted back to Prague. There, as he slowly died of drink and TB, Hašek wrote the saga of the good soldier Švejk...