Word: airings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uneasy relatives of the crew began to gather at the Birkenhead shipyards of Cammell Laird & Co., Ltd., builders of the Thetis. A flotilla of salvage ships, warships, tugs and submarines set out from ports from Birkenhead all the way round the bottom of England to Portsmouth. Royal Air Force planes soared the skies. All were looking for the telltale buoys which distressed submarines try to send to the surface to show where they are. (A buoy located the Squalus.) The crowd around the shipyards grew bigger. After 15 hours the first news came ashore. Fourteen miles off Great Ormes Head...
Wednesday Evening, June 7 *Triumphal March from "Aida"Verdi *Overture to "Anacreon" Chernbini *Minuet (for String Orchestra) Bolzoni *"Madam Butterfly," Fantasia Puccini "Manhattan" Colla Midday--Night Shadows--Playtime (Conducted by the Composer) *Air, "Coleste Aida," from "Aida" Verdi Soloist: DARIO MAIANI, Tenor "Italia," Rhapsody Casella *Malaguena Lecuona *Perpetuum Mobile Paganini Played by the combined string sections *Spanish Dance de Falla *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...Copenhagen gave reporters a ready explanation for this phenomenon. Like most Europeans, he said, Danes were slow to install central heating systems, common in U. S. homes. Throughout the long, cold winters they shivered, exercised, ate heavily to generate their own body heat. But recently Denmark acquired hot-air furnaces and steam radiators. Result: the Danes, still eating heavily, lounge comfortably in their warm rooms, convert the excess food into fat instead of heat...
Comes to hand an item about Memorial Day which does not contain any unfortunate air-rifle connotations. In a drugstore not far from Harvard Square someone who evidently combined a penchant for window trimming with an unmistakable patriotic zeal arranged a display window with various medicines and flags. Squarely in the center of this nest of cough-and-cold remedies, salves, and tonics a soulful white cross had been arranged. And, at the intersection of the cross was inscribed...
...when she arose this morning there was a soft tint over the quiet waves to the cast. To the west, toward the mainland, the hills stood out clear said fainaly blue. There was no movement in the air. Breathing it was like walking through a field of violets, the sweetness hardened a little with the salty smell...