Word: wenzel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Affectionate Viennese nickname combining Millimeter and Metternich-Clemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince Metternich-Winneburg, Austria's great 19th Century Chancellor. A current Vienna cracker last week was that a new issue of stamps will show Dollfuss' picture, lifesize. Dollfuss has made it known that he enjoys jokes about his size...
Leaving a party at Manhattan's swank Central Park Casino at 3 a. m. Louis J. Ehret, 22, grandson of the late Brewer George Ehret, drove his automobile into a Central Park lamppost. His companion, beauteous Eileen Wenzel ("Miss St. Louis" of 1925, lately a Ziegfeld showgirl) was severely cut on the face by glass...
...Zeller & Wenzel. Well known in the industry but not overpublicized, experts but not sensationalists were Myron E. Zeller, chief pilot, and Carl Wenzel, chief test mechanic, of Ford Motor's aircraft division. Pilot Zeller flew a Ford to fourth place in the National Reliability Air Tour last September. Mechanic Wenzel was selected to accompany the Ford which Bernt Balchen and the late Floyd Bennett flew to the relief of the transatlantic monoplane Bremen on Greenly Island off Labrador...
...last week Zeller and Wenzel were flying an experimental Ford tri-motor over their home field at Dearborn, Mich, in routine tests. Suddenly blue flames began to spew from two of the engines, enveloping the fuselage and wings. Zeller made a landing, but the ship nosed over, balanced for an instant, fell on its back, a blazing mass. Pilot Zeller, 26, and Mechanic Wenzel, 30, died...
...Wenzel Number Four" is an English allusion to 14th Century King Wenceslaus IV of "Bohemia whose exploits included not only harpooning maidens young and spry but also ordering that his Queen's confessor, the legendary St. John of Nepomuk, should be thrown into the vltava for refusing to reveal to His Majesty something which Her Majesty had confided to the saint at confessional...