Word: wenzel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...king was Wenzel Number Four...
...guessed, that Wenzel guy harpoons a girl that's young and spry
Three hundred years ago Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein made a big name for his fighting in the Thirty Years' War (later immortalized by Poet Johann Friedrich von Schiller). Not many years ago in Chicago, Wallenstein's fifth-grandnephew, Alfred, last in the male line of Wallensteins, went shopping with his father to buy a bicycle. It had been offered as a reward for the attainment of certain grades in school. The grades were easily earned but the right bicycle was hard to find. Father & son passed a music store with a shiny 'cello in the window...
...Spain fortnight ago a bull killed a man with a sword (TIME, Sept. 22). In Czechoslovakia, last week, a corpse shot a man with a pistol. Explanation: In the village of Bruex one Wenzel Kokoschka grew tired of life, blew out his brains with one bullet from a seven-shot repeater, lay on his face unnoticed for several hours. In due time the corpse was discovered...
Inspector Joseph Marcs of the local police came to examine the body. The pistol was still clutched in Wenzel Kokoschka's hand. As the inspector bent to turn the corpse over, rigor mortis caused the corpse's fingers to contract. Corpse Wenzel shot Inspector Joseph through the stomach...