Word: czechoslovakia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. John Oliver Crane, son of Charles Richard Crane (onetime U. S. Minister to China), onetime Secretary to President Thomas G. Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, brother-in-law of Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian Minister to Great Britain; and Countess Theresa Martini Marescotti; at Rome...
...Pressburg, last week, judges sat in solemn conclave over nervous ascetic Professor Bela Tuka, famed savant, charged with high treason. Specific treason: attempting to carve Slovakia out of Czechoslovakia. Despite the fact that an alleged Hungarian spy, Anton Mras, swore loudly that his original testimony against Professor Tuka was false, Bela Tuka was sentenced to 15 years in penal servitude...
However pleasing to the Pope was news of this celebration, last week he accomplished something that must have been even more gratifying to him. Seizing the most propitious moment possible, he completely healed the breach between Czechoslovakia and the Catholic Church...
...this cross had hitherto been given only to Catholic sovereigns, the Czechs realized the Pope wished the breach completely healed. Especially joyful were they because of the fact that the Pope made this reconciliation in the midst of the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of St. Wenceslas, patron of Czechoslovakia and famed in Bohemian legends. While the festival over "Good King Wenceslas" has been in progress since May, last week was a most appropriate time for the Pope's presentation, since on the following day was opened the restored Church of St. Vitus, supposedly begun by St. Wenceslas...
...drawing attention to himself and upsetting his antagonists; he is intensely superstitious, wears two good luck medals around his neck, and has embroidered on all his sweaters the talismanic image of a small dog sitting up, which he says was given to him by "a great lady of Czechoslovakia." Having left his dog on the sidelines, he began the finals last week in his customary way of drawing Richards, the best volleyer in the world, to the net so that he could win points by passing him. For two sets Richards, pale and imperturbable, saw the ball go by again...