Word: kaspar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fifth annual Ice Carnival of the Skating Club of New York last week gave the U. S. its first look at the world's figure-skating champion, 22-year-old Felix Kaspar. To followers of skating this was more important than all the other events of that pretentious show-a "George Washington Ball"; a ballet set to Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake; a "reproduction" of the Currier & Ives skating print; the appearances of Toronto's Louise Bertram & Stewart Reburn (the Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers of skating), of Comedian Eric Wait with his absurd walking stunt, of 83-year...
Little Felix Kaspar won the world's championship in 1937, succeeding his fellow Viennese Karl Schaefer, who had held the title seven years running. Something of a blade, Kaspar often wears trousers rather than tights, always wears a grin on his dimpled pink face. His greatest accomplishment, however, is jumping. He is only 5 ft. 5 in. tall, yet one of his Axel Paulsen jumps has been measured as over 4 ft. 6 in. high, 18 ft. 6 in. long. In last week's Carnival, for which his billings were changed (for diplomatic reasons) from "Champion of Austria...
...Kaspar has none of the bashfulness of a Milquetoast. When he is complimented on speaking English well, he explains: "I picked it up on my travels." His English had its stiffest test when, on his way back from an Australian tour, he was asked to explain skating to a Ceylon reporter who had never seen ice except in highballs...
...visit Czechoslovakian Prague was en fête. Triumphal arches had been erected in the main streets which were decorated with flags and evergreen. Prague's electric works reduced their rates by 35% to insure that the city's illuminations should blaze far into the night. Cardinal Kaspar, head of the Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia, went so far as to permit his Czech flock to eat meat all day Friday. Nothing was lacking to make the reception the sort that Carol most enjoys. There were champagne banquets, boy scouts, a gala opera, hordes of game birds...
...five non-Italian Cardinals-to-be, one is a schoolman (Monsignor Henri Baudrillart, president of the Catholic Institute of Paris), the rest Archbishops- Monsignor Emmanuel Suhard of Rheims; Monsignor Isidoro Goma y Tomas of Toledo, Spain; Monsignor Karl Kaspar of Prague; Monsignor Santiago Luigi Copello of Buenos Aires whose election will give South America its second Cardinal and Argentina the honor it hoped to get after last year's Eucharistic Congress (TIME...