Word: ais
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arabia, news from the Land of Saud is always scarce, usually untrustworthy. Biggest Christian news of recent years was the 58-day trek of English Explorer Bertram Thomas across 900 miles of arid waste, famed for its weirdly noisy ''singing sands'' and called the Riilxi-aI-Khali or "Abode of Loneliness" (TIME. March 9. 1931). Last week the U. S. State Department received its only notice of King Ibn Saud's doings from his Minister in London, the Sheikh Hafiz Wahba. Calling at the U.S. Embassy the Sheikh suavely announced that "in accordance with...
...Blase" and a two-piano version neatly embroidered by Peggy Cochrane and William Walker. From Paris there is Lucienne Boyer's "Parlez-Moi d'Amour" which took a prize last year for being the best popular record made in France; and colored Josephine Baker's "J'ai Deux Amours." From Germany there is a Marlene Dietrich record, "Jonny" on one side, "Peter" on the other, for people who like naughty lyrics and do not mind harsh, off-pitch singing...
British police in Hongkong recently obliged their French confrères by arresting the terrible N'Guyen Ai Quac and sending him back to his execution. Bearded Sikh policemen in Singapore arrested the French Communist Serge La France and shipped a bundle of incriminating documents to French authorities. After studying this batch of evidence the French Colonial Office realized that the guillotine may not have been the ideal cure. Minister of the Colonies Paul Reynaud left his desk in Paris and hurried East for four months. While he is in Indo-China beheadings will be suspended. Said a spokesman...
...easy-going housewife of 26, packed her husband off to work, her two children off to school, then sat down to glance through a New York newspaper before starting on the breakfast dishes. In the paper that day there was printed a unique notice: Wanted, a soprano to sing Ai'da. . . . Margaret Matzenauer, famed contralto, had been engaged to sing the role of Amneris (Egyptian princess) with an otherwise obscure troupe in Manhattan's gaudy Mecca Temple on May 9. But to get itself a soprano for the slave girl's part the management had decided...
...Emerson D Geology 13a Sever 18 German 3a Memorial Hall Government 12a Sever 11 Greek 2 Sever 30 History 15 Sever 6 History 17a Mallinckrodt MB 9 History 28 Mallinckrodt MB 9 History 51a Andover C History of Science 1 Sem. Mus. 1 Italian 1 Harvard 5 Mathematics AI Professor Graustein, Sec. 1 Memorial Hall Dr. Gergen, Sec. 2 Memorial Hall Mr. Adams, Sec. 3 Memorial Hall Mr. Frame, Sec. 4 Memorial Hall Mr. Galbraith, Sec. 5 Memorial Hall Mr. Morrey, Sec. 6 Memorial Hall Mr. Myers, Sec. 7 Memorial Hall Mr. Whitney, Sec. 8 Memorial Hall Mathematics 3 Harvard...