Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Czecho-Slovalcia. Firing squads moved with equal celerity against the saboteurs of the Skoda munitions works and other Czech industries. Hitler's chief executioner, cold, bloody Reinhard Heydrich, was in Berlin reporting his accomplishments. Berlin admitted that his assistants accomplished 123 executions during the week. Among those rushed to the wall of death were Czech Generals Josef Bily, Hugo Votja and Franz Horacek, retired Generals Michael Dolezal and Josef Svatek, bald, pale Otokar Klapka, whom the Nazis had appointed Mayor of Prague. Deputy Premier Jaroslav Krejci was arrested, as were Minister of the Interior General Joseph Jezek and former...
Last week the Moscow radio reported that hundreds of Germans had been killed in an explosion in a Czech munitions plant. The next day British Broadcasting Corp. elaborated, said that the explosion was in the great Skoda munitions works at Pilsen, that afterwards hundreds of German troops had been rushed to the plant. Despite the troops, said BBC, another explosion ruined the power plant at the works...
Dvorak was the first symphonic composer to use U.S. Negro and Indian themes, which he usually Dvoraked into something pretty Czech. Still living is the man who gave him such tunes as Swing Low Sweet Chariot (used in the New World Symphony): Harry T. Burleigh, dapper, 75-year-old choir singer at Manhattan's St. George's Episcopal Church...
...Bohemia, orchestras are no longer allowed to play Dvorak's bouncing Slavonic Dances, his mournful Dumky (elegies), his evocations of Bohemia's folklore. For Dvorak's nationalist music speaks patriotically plain to Czech hearts...
...hobby seems to have been looking at ships and locomotives, Dvorak spent three years in the U.S. in the 1890s, made $15,000 a year as head of Manhattan's National Conservatory of Music, but was homesick. The composer's happiest months were spent vacationing in the Czech village of Spillville, Iowa, where he played the organ in church...