Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your story anent Hal Kemp's Brunswick recording of the famous Hungarian suicide song, Gloomy Sunday, a letter from the composer was received by his good friend and former Budapest studio-mate, Karoly Nyaray, now of New York City. I met Nyaray, who possesses a fine tenor voice, alter I heard him sing Szomorú Vasárnap on Columbia's Hungarian record of Gloomy Sunday. He showed me the letter and translated it for me. ... I am quoting...
...medical names which stand biggest in the minds of the U. S. public are those of surgeons, not of physicians. A meeting of the American College of Physicians in Detroit last week did nothing to alter that fact. The men they chose to honor above all others were a young physiologist who probably will never practice medicine, an old physiologist who never did practice, and a re-articulated paralytic who has created a unique specialty of treating cripples such as he once...
...have been spoiled because a shy young thing refuses the man of her choice in Leap Year, fearing lest her acquaintances think she has been the aggressor? How many ornithologists have seen the birds observing Leap Year? What pisciculturist would have the audacity to maintain that the fishes would alter their simple system of courtship for a mere convention...
...prohibit the grazing of cattle on land taken out of crop production, were all voted down with ease. One important amendment to the bill was adopted: flood control was added to the things on which Secretary Wallace could spend money, thus opening up to him vast opportunities to alter the natural drainage system of the U. S. The Court. Best oratorical efforts of the debate were devoted to the Supreme Court. In what amounted to the first serious Senate sound-off on the AAA decision, Nebraska's old, white-crested George William Norris spoke for two hours in spite...
...Cohan's support is pleasing throughout, although perhaps the three leading women enunciate a little too clearly and speak a little too earnestly, in contrast with the star's jolly abandon. But Joseph Leggitt, acted by Charles D. Brown, deserves a palm along with his colleague. Calvin's alter ago in the play, he portrays to perfection all a friend's loyalty, banter, conniving, assistance, and well-intended blunders...