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Jules Pascin was born in Bulgaria 45 years ago, of a Spanish-Jewish father and a Serbo-Italian mother. He was educated in Vienna and Berlin, traveled everywhere, stayed in New York long enough to become a U. S. citizen, spent most of his life in Paris. He hated the rive gauche, and his studio was not on Montparnasse but on Montmartre, right next to the Moulin Rouge, among the music halls, zinc bars, hack stands and sporting houses whose employes and habitues were his models and friends. A few initiates knew that his last name was not Pascin...
...devotee of the cross. Today only the esoteric significance of language, as understood by pedants, betrays the Slavic as the most numerous of European races. Miscegenation and environment have destroyed racial semblance, shattered racial pride. There are more than 150,000,000 Russians, Poles, Kashubes, Serbs, Czechoslovaks, Polabs, Slovenes, Serbo-Croats, Bulgarians. All are Slavs, despite their differing nationalities, characteristics. Alfons Mucha possessed the requisite imagination and pride to epitomize this development. Proudly is he Czechoslovakian, proudly a Slav. White-haired, rugged, in this man the strain is sharply apparent. His far-off ancestors surely looked on Svetovit, three-headed...
...planetary in their scope. They are extension courses in a double sense, embracing as they do the following spoken languages: Armenian, Chinese, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Rumanian, Spanish and Turkish. There are also suggestions of courses in Russian, Polish, Czechoslovak and Serbo-Croatian. These are offered not only for the practical value of their use in oral intercommunication, but also for their helpfulness to those who aim to master a language for the sake of the literature or as a key to sources of knowledge in any domain of the past...
...Slovenes speak a language of their own, which is a link between Serbo-Croat and Czech. The Croats and Serbs have been closer together, speaking the same language, but having a history totally different. Strange to say, in all their history till the end of 1918, they have never been united in the same nation...
...published, there are now 165 gymnasiums in Austria, frequented by 53, 142 pupils. In 95 of these schools the pupils are taught in the German idiom, in 33 in Zchech, and in 21 in Polish. Four of them are Italian, one is Ruthene, seven are Utraquist, and four are Serbo-Croat...