Word: 53rd
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...53rd birthday of Benito Mussolini fell last week in the astrological sign of Leo the lion. No Italian newspaper mentioned the fact because Fascism is a youth movement, the title of the Fascist anthem is "Youth" (Giovanezza), and Mussolini must remain always young. Last week his wife gave a family birthday party and, for a birthday present, Il Duce got word from his Ethiopian Viceroy Field Marshal Graziani that Italian and native troops had surprised an Ethiopian force trying to break up the north road out of Addis Ababa, had killed...
...Civil Service celebrated the 53rd anniversary of its foundation. In honor...
Since 1932 Mrs. Rockefeller's chief interest has been within rifle shot of the same window. The Museum of Modern Art is housed in a handsome limestone house in West 53rd Street with a back door facing the Rockefeller backyard...
...collection of Cezannes equaled only by those in Moscow and the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pa., the finest group of Seurat drawings in the U. S. and 59 other important works. In 1932 the Museum moved from the Heckscher Building around to its present quarters on West 53rd Street...
...toward increased realism in writing and production." Designer Geddes has given the U. S. Theatre new dimensions in the realm of naturalism. Displayed on the stage where David Belasco used to draw plaudits for showing real roses in real vases is apparently the east end of Manhattan's 53rd Street. To the left stands the rear entrance of a swank apartment not unlike River House. In the centre squats a row of verminous flats. To the right rises a grimy coal chute. And all across the front stretches a pier-end from which urchins dive with a splash into...