Word: haase
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Skeleton on Horseback (Czech). This last picture made by the Czechs from one of the last plays of their late great playwright, Karel Capek (R. U. R.), is reported to have been smuggled out of Czechoslovakia shortly after the German invasion. It is a lurid appeal for pacifism. Dr. Galen...
Last Saturday the Grand Ol' Opry turnout was swelled by a delegation from up around Tellico Plains, in the Great Smokies, on hand to hear a straight-limbed, sixth-generation mountain girl sing a song her grandpappy taught her. The girl was 23-year-old Edith Haas Padgett, famed...
On the night of the murder, according to police, Haas, whose real name is Ernest Walter Kehler, accompanied Engelberg to his home. There the Nazi secretary, whose curious hobbies included collecting books on nudism, photographs of nude men, made improper advances, Haas-Kehler said.
Haas-Kehler, over six feet, weighed 185 pounds. "We dubbed him Killer Kehler," said Henry Dunn, boxing promoter who knew him when he was fighting in Montreal last spring, "because of his wicked punch."
Not explained to the satisfaction of the Brooklyn district attorney's office were these facts: Engelberg appeared to have been asleep when he was attacked, and by the horrible look of his face, the "something on the dresser" which Haas-Kehler said he grasped must have been an ax...