Word: slavs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Slav scholars request some outstanding examples of American literature written on the subject of "Mothers", in a letter to the English Department received from Yugoslavia yesterday afternoon...
...defending his title against One-time Champion Alexandre Alekhine. The move in question occurred in Haarlem during the sixth game of a 30-game peregrinating match (played in The Hague, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Leyden, Delft). Dr. Alekhine opened with a queen's gambit and was met by a Slav defense. On his sixth move Dr. Alekhine suddenly offered to sacrifice a knight. Dr. Euwe nibbled his fingers and stared at the board, nonplussed. A sacrifice so early in the game, in that position, was unheard of. He brooded for 40 minutes, then decided not to accept the sacrifice...
...Swiss insane asylum, Stravinsky writes: "He spoke little, and, when he did speak, gave the impression of being a very backward youth whose intelligence was very undeveloped for his age. . . . The poor boy knew nothing of music. . . ." To Stravinsky, German Richard Wagner is a bore, his fellow Slav, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, a genius of late greatly underrated. Stravinsky says he detests "star conductors" who pride themselves on their interpretations. According to Stravinsky's precepts the composer's notations should be all-sufficient...
...week shouting "Hurrah for Socialism! Hurrah for Ethiopia!" he and his friends were promptly arrested, permitted to cool off for a few hours in jail. Likewise last week Poles glorifying in the Pilsudski everywhere sang Jeszcze Polska Nie Zginela, their national anthem: Poland's not yet dead in slav'ry, She shall reign in splendor! What she lost her children's brav'ry Once again shall render! On, on, ye Legions, where battle rages! Poland shall again be free...
...express draws into the station in Subotica (with the station name in Cyrillic and Latin script!) a Yugoslavian soldier boards the train and inexcusably in the roughest way, with no explanations, arrests the two Americans and the Slav. ... In the middle of the room officers are sitting around a large table eating. They throw bones on the floor, drink wine and lick their fingers! This abominable scene filled the American public with wonder and at the time caused merriment and hilarity. The officers speak half Serbian and half English! . . . The fugitives travel by automobile toward Belgrade. On the way they...