Word: karel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Karel Suchoparek, Czechoslovakia's national director of spas, explained that he had kept foreign patients away from Jachymov only because the spa was so crowded. He added: "A small number of Russians are there as patients...
...English pro, R.A.F. Squadron Leader Dan Maskell. The team score: U.S. 4, Empire 1 ¶In overheated Manhattan, a pair of ancient iron men had their day in the quarter-finals of the U.S. pro championships. In 88° heat, 52-year-old Bill Tilden battled 55-year-old Karel Kozeluh through five sets. After two and a quarter hours of chasing elusive drop shots, Big Bill won the match and brushed off the skeptics: "Well, you saw ... I finished standing up, didn't I?" (Next day he got the worst drubbing of his career from young Welby...
...from all over the U. S., Negro players, musicians, authors, also many an eminent white. All week Dillard held an arts festival. Negro children sang spirituals and Tschaikowsky; the Dillard Chorus sang Haydn's Creation; high-school actors gave plays; Dillard's Players' Guild put on Karel Capek's R. U. R.; Dillard's gallery exhibited prize Negro paintings and photographs. Dillard's president, small, earnest Dr. William Stuart Nelson, beamed with pride...
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 (Hugo Haas) has discovered a secret cure for a leprous epidemic which is slowly killing off the human race. Dr. Galen lives in an unnamed dictatorship. When its dictator (Zdanek Stepanek) and his munitions manufacturer (Vaclav Vydra) contract the disease, Dr. Galen refuses to cure them unless they stop making...