Word: hus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...origins of this rift were in 1925 when the Czechs, three fourths of whom are Catholics, celebrated as a national holiday the anniversary of the martyrdom of John Hus five centuries ago. Since Heretic Hus had been burned for intimating that the anti-Christ could be found at Rome, the papacy was quick to express its resentment over this holiday and withdrew the Papal Nuncio from the Prague for almost a year...
Also BURLESQUE, THE QUEEN'S HUS BAND, THE ROYAL FAMILY, VOLPONE...
...hunting party were Edward of Wales and Albert of York, impotent before Fate. In Cooch Behar, unsympathetic Hindus croaked that their Maharani's accident was in reality a judgment upon her for adopting Occidental habits, even to the extent of eloping with her late hus- band...
...Peru. ... It is a country of immense natural riches. ... I have some ideas myself as to relief measures for the farmer, but am not prepared just now. . . ." Still in Peru is Mrs. Miles Poindexter, U. S. replica of Margot Asquith, said to have remarked on the occasion of her hus- band's failure to secure re-election in 1922: "Washington voters, like a widely-advertised brand of tires, smile at Miles...
...most successful playwright, smug Ferenc Molnar, after he had accused her of intimacy with 42 gentlemen, and she had replied in kind with a list of 142 ladies. The sensation, at the time, was international, if not cosmic. Yet the Court asked last week: "Have you a hus-band?" Sari Fedak (shrugging a black, snaky shoulder): "Thank God, no!" The Court: "Have you any physical defects?" Sari Fedak (relaxing in her chair, replying in a sultry tone): "Certainly not-unless in my brain." Ah, reflected the auditors, more than one brain had been turned by Sari Fedak. Does not Count...