Word: karel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spirited suit for divorce last week, grizzled old General Josef Karel, once aide-de-camp to Emperor Franz Josef, denounced his wife for something new in the annals of Austrian jurisprudence: political infidelity...
...have been married 35 years and she knows well enough I am a Monarchist," shouted General Karel. "But what do I have to put up with? She insults the picture of Kaiser Karl* that hangs in our home. Worse than that she is a notorious Nazi. She holds secret Nazi meetings in our attic without my knowledge. Such goings on! I don't feel in such circumstances that my pension is safe...
...their National Championship in Chicago. William Tatem Tilden II was abroad, practicing for the World's Championship next month in Paris. In the semifinals, Ellsworth Vines, who has this year earned some $50,000 from the game, was beaten by Hans Nusslein of Germany. In the final, Nusslein beat Karel Kozeluh of Czechoslovakia...
Henri Cochet, of France, world's ablest tennis amateur, confided to friends that he was going to turn professional. They expected him to sign a contract (like William Tatem Tilden II, Vincent Richards, Karel Kozeluh) with fat Jack Curley, who is now scouting Europe for wrestling talent...
...Vincent Richards crushed Karel Kozeluh in one of the finest exhibitions of sustained attack I have ever witnessed. ... It seemed to me that he played Richards' backhand too much . . . missed many openings to Richards' forehand corner. . . . Kozeluh was wild and erratic in his efforts to pass Richards...