Word: wenzel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief interest of the April number of the Advocate is in the generous selection it prints from the Harvard entries in the annual Story Magazine contest. Of these I liked Mr. Wenzel's "Journey to Shreveport" best. It is a more brutal and masculine rendering of the situation in Josephine Johnson's "Nigger Honeymoon," with the shock of full awareness reserved until the end. Although Mr. Wenzel makes good use of the excitement of his material, his story derives its value from his ability to observe, and from a sense of country passed through and the things people...
...probable Bellboy lineup is: ends, Hunter and Wenzel; tackles, Thurston and Pirnie; guards, Call and Taliaferro; center, Clark; quarterback, Gordon; halfbacks, Hame and Blotner; and full-back, Lyford...
...half-breeds!" With planes from Nazi Germany incessantly swooping over the Czechoslovak frontier and droning above Sudeten Germans last week, plug-uglies of the Nazi minority indulged with impunity in terroristic acts against non-Nazi Sudeten Germans. In vain a representative of the Sudeten German Social Democratic loyalists, Deputy Wenzel Jaksch, rose in the Czechoslovak Parliament at Prague to cry, "I demand protection for our democratic Germans against the terrorism of the Nazis...
...before Herr Henlein has visited England. Not long ago he pledged to British friends that he was "really democratic at heart," said he would never make his party openly Nazi. He did so a few weeks ago. Last fortnight Führer Henlein denounced his democratic Sudeten German foe, Wenzel Jaksch, for "the treacherous and un-German move of recently visiting London in a time of political crisis...
Engaged. Thomas George Paul ("Tommy") Farr, 24, heavyweight boxing champion of Great Britain; to Eileen Wenzel, 27, former Ziegfeld Follies dancer, who in 1936 won a $40,774 damage suit from Louis J. Ehret Jr., brewery heir, on the grounds that an automobile crash had "marred her beauty and lessened her prospects of a favorable marriage...