Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than ordinary concertgoers. On some nights the floor is so packed, the air so heavy with smoke and heat that faintings and hurried exits are common. Since the series began in 1895, weed-whiskered old Sir Henry Joseph Wood has conducted every concert. When he and Concert Agent Robert Newman at first insisted on including new and unfamiliar compositions in their programs, critics praised them but insisted that that kind of thing would not go down with the untutored public. Wood ignored their advice, continued to give his audiences small doses of modern music, gradually increasing them with the years...
Really scathing attacks on Neville Chamberlain were made almost entirely from extremely safe distances of several thousand miles, notably by certain Manhattan radio news broadcasters. Of these. Johannes Steel, a German agent on mysterious missions in Brazil until the Nazis came into power, was the most caustic: "Good evening ladies and gentlemen. So they call it peace! . . . They call it peace because the victim, not being able to save itself from its friends, cannot face the enemy alone. They call it peace because the victor received the spoils before instead of after battle! . . . The England of Mr. Chamberlain...
...maxims, such as "There's more old drunkards than old doctors," or "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards." Genuinely exciting is the 200-page record of the growing antagonism between England and the colonies, as Franklin witnessed it in London, where as a colonial agent he fought the Stamp Act, worked desperately for a reconciliation, appeared before Parliament to be baited by stupid and arrogant Tories, and was finally harried out of the country, cursing the "extreme corruption . . . in this rotten old state...
...psychiatrist, semiprofessional swimmer and author of 25,000 good and bad sonnets. With all his zest for life, Dr. Moore is most interested in the problem of suicide, has collected many scientific facts on this phenomenon. Last week in The New England Journal of Medicine he discussed the agent most commonly used by would-be suicides: iodine...
...McBride), then of the bewildered young author whose play he hopes to produce. Harpo and Chico are Miller's equally impecunious assistants. The tumultuous efforts of the Marxes along two fronts-1) forestalling the supervisor's efforts to throw them out, and 2) bullying a naive financial agent into signing a check that will solve all their difficulties -lead to scenes of indescribable confusion. The double room which Groucho stubbornly regards as his castle becomes a shambles on which the most effective comment is entirely wordless: when Harpo undertakes to relieve his partner's hunger pangs...