Word: arching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soprano roles in Gilbert & Sullivan operettas are most effective when sung by small, arch, comely ladies. The contralto roles demand singers made up to look stout and ugly. Katisha in The Mikado, in particular, should be "a most unattractive old thing, tra la, with a caricature of a face." For this role last week the brothers Lee & Jake Shubert signed up oldtime Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, 70. With a company of seasoned Savoyards, the Shuberts' Mikado opens Oct. 16 in Wilmington, Del., will play in Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and other Eastern cities...
...member of the Cabinet or leader of the Opposition, had no seat in the front row. Arriving late he could not even find a place in the back benches, had to squeeze in uncomfortably on the steps in the aisle. Finally some M. P.'s moved over, allowing arch-Conservative Churchill to squeeze into the seat occupied in the last session by bobbed-haired James Maxton, Labor's most fiery Left winger...
...Christian Association planned to stay up, all night if need be, till the plane was reported passing Yetorofu Island. Then rockets would be sent up to welcome the flyers into the harbor. Places were reserved for 3,000 school children to sing to them from Nemuro beach; a green arch had been erected for them to walk under. Nemuro's geisha girls were ready to dance in their honor and a Banzai band had rehearsed, for their amazement. "The Star Spangled Banner." Finally, the fog lifted and the Lindberghs took off from Petropavlovsk, a day behind schedule...
...Interests." Had Publisher Dickey been alive last week, readers of the Journal-Post might not have seen what they did: an announcement that Henry Latham Doherty, crafty, bearded president of far-flung Cities Service Co. had bought a half-interest in the paper to give battle to his arch enemies the Kansas City Star and Governor Harry Woodring of Kansas (TIME, July...
...outlined practically the same proposal in his opening address to the Conference. Mr. Castle reiterated that the President should have full credit for the plan, guessed that Mr. Stimson's statement was only a friendly diplomatic gesture to Great Britain as the Conference's host. The arch- Republican New York Herald Tribune reported rumors of Mr. Stimson's resignation, recalled that President Hoover had made Mr. Castle Undersecretary of State over Mr. Stimson's candidate for the job (Lawyer George Rublee of Washington, D. C. who drafted the London Naval Treaty). Declared President Hoover: "A tempest...