Word: masaryk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gravely crippled by the War, is the place to look for the great Art of the future. He is a Ukrainian, born and bred in Kiev. In Berlin he recently closed a school to which flocked students from all over the world. At Prague he did a bust of Masaryk, President of Czecho-Slovakia. His bust of his wife (a native of Berlin), who accompanies him to America, is in the Leipzig Museum...
Formerly a member of the Austrian Reichsrat (State Council), President Masaryk fled from Austria on the outbreak of war to work for the delivery of Czecho-Slovakia. He worked hard toward this end and finally, before a visit to the United States in the summer of 1918, he secured Allied recognition of the Provisional Government of Czecho-Slovakia?the recognition of a Government over a country that did not exist. His triumph was not delayed, for on Oct. 28, 1918, after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Narodni Vybor (National Council) took over the governments of the countries...
Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, son of a poor gamekeeper on one of the imperial estates in Moravia, is married to an American. He was a student at the Universities of Prague Vienna and Leipzig; later, while still a young man, he was appointed a professor in Prague University...
...came to shoot over the Moravian estate. This company were in the habit of leaving their costly cloaks, which represented a fortune to the peasant, in his father's cottage. While the shoot was on the peasants used to gather round to admire the resplendent garments, but little Tommy Masaryk alone refused to look at them, saying: " I do not like to see those things." Later, explaining his feelings, he said: "I felt there was something radically wrong. Just what was not clear to me. Such a hate I had that it lasted until today...
...exaggeration to say that President Masaryk has won through his influence, his character and his ability a just and honorable place among the political and intellectual leaders of the world...