Word: 7th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Melody" -- Casino, 7th and 50th Street--More music than comedy, but a very lavish operetta with Evelyn Herbert, Everett Marshall and Jeanno Aubert...
Fierce old Tzu Hsi, crafty, foreigner-hating Dowager Empress, used to say that this Lion Dog of China knew regal splendor when Europeans were "still swinging from the trees by their tails." Fanciers now generally agree that the dog probably took on its present aspect in the 7th Century A. D., but Chinese tradition holds that it was the pet of Emperors 4,000 years ago. Ancient carvings, pictures and effigies of a grotesque animal resembling the Pekingese seem to substantiate this belief...
...people's tongues are tart. Last autumn the 6th Reichstag since the founding of the Republic was opened by drooling Frau Clara Zetkin, 75, "Grandmother of the German Revolution," who screamed Communist abuse of President von Hindenburg, demanded his impeachment (TIME, Sept. 12). Last week the new (7th) Reichstag was opened in equally abusive fashion by grizzled, gimlet-eyed, grey-mustached General Karl Litzmann, 82, the Fascist Party's specially acquired official parliamentary oldster...
...open end, blew. A low, sepulchral reverberation grumbled up the pipe. "The natural frequency of the pipe when blown into by mouth was about 161-that is, three octaves below the keynote of the scale previously indicated," observed Sir Richard. Evidently, "the wind was playing on the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th overtones of the pipe, and the melody was being produced by the rapid fluctuations of wind-pressure." The mystery and his solution make Sir Richard "wonder whether such an effect can ever have occurred in Nature-a broken bamboo stem, for example, partially obstructed at its windward...
...into the semifinals, and for the first 18 holes of his match, he out-golfed Johnny Goodman. In the afternoon Ouimet was obviously worn out, and Goodman took the match 4 & 2. Despite the driving of Siege Gun Guilford-he almost drove the green on the 349-yard 7th-Ross Somerville won his match...