Word: wenzel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metropolitan regime.' Surprise came at the performance when Basso Louis D'Angelo, long confined to minor roles, emerged as a blustering comic. D'Angelo was the ubiquitous, bewhiskered marriage broker, with the flowered vest, the gaudy watch chain, the inseparable red umbrella. The stammering, half-witted Wenzel was Tenor George Rasely, a native of St. Louis, with a radio reputation and many a church job behind him. He had scarcely made an appearance, had scarcely stuttered a line before the audience accepted him, started to laugh its approval. Muriel Dick-Son exhibited a sure, clear voice...
Into New York Supreme Court stepped Theatrical Producer Earl Carroll to testify for onetime Showgirl Eileen Wenzel, suing the grandson of Brewer George Ehret, for damages to her beauty in an automobile smash. Said Sexpert Carroll: "She had lustrous hair of fine texture, a forehead like a snow peak and eyes that made men swoon." Said the Justice: "Strike that out. Be more specific." Said Witness Carroll: "Her eyes were bright, her teeth and mouth regular, as was her chest, her throat lovely and her lips inviting." Taking a final look at Miss Wenzel's scarred, pitted face...
...Hall is suffering from a sore groin and Bill Flackert and Lonis Wenzel of the Tigers promise to make it hot for him in the high jump. Mike Herman, in spite of Millard and Schumann, will probably take the shot for the visitors...
...peaceful little Oraschin, terrible-tempered Town Councilman Wenzel Klimes called the autocratic local mayor "a Hitler." Last week the Mayor brought suit for slander. Ruled the judge: "To call an official 'a Hitler' is an objectionable expression, reflecting on the authority of the person attacked. Councilman Klimes, I sentence you to pay a fine of 30 crowns [$1.25] or to serve 24 hours in jail...
...among their own peoples will have to be worked up. Last week grizzled old Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, "Father of Czechoslovakia" and its perpetual President, did something he had never done before on a birthday of his country, which last week was 15. Standing stiffly in Prague's Wenzel Square the President reviewed a Czechoslovak birthday parade in which for the first time marched not only citizens and peasants but troops...