Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wing. At the time Harney's violently syncopated pianism, which according to contemporaries "could be heard for blocks around," was regarded as a passing fad. But it caught on so rapidly that by 1897 Harney was encouraged to publish his Rag-Time Instructor, first pedagogical treatise on the art of ragtime, now a collector's item...
Dangerous to Know (Paramount) is a glowering melodrama with artless plot, artful production. Akim Tamiroff, alumnus of the Moscow Art Theatre, has had 60-odd Hollywood roles, nearly all of them brooding and villainous, most of them whiskery. In this picture he is a thin-mustached, esthetic bigwig racketeer who tunes his moods to Tchaikovsky or Wagner, keeps a slinky-eyed hostess (Anna May Wong), is dangerous to know because he eliminates occasional associates with sad-eyed sadism. With his town's financial and civic agencies pretty well in thrall he makes the social error of trying to snare...
...long run the Bell System looks to development and research to reduce the cost of furnishing telephone service. If, however, expenses, including wages and taxes, continue to rise, telephone rates must follow, unless the increase in expenses is so gradual and within such limits that improvements in the art can be made fast enough and productive enough to create offsetting economies...
Harvey Ross in the 118-pound class was eliminated in the first round by Fashay of Princeton, while Tudor Gardiner in the heavyweight bout, Art Page in the 135-pound division and Bill Goslin in the 145 were also eliminated early in the meet...
...Snyder, of Yale, in the excellent time of 2:19.7, the Freshmen natators lost to the Elis, 47 to 28. Clocked in 2:29.8, Paul Metcalfe, Blue breastroker, broke his own National Intercollegiate Freshman record for the event. The Crimson mermen were best in the backstroke, as Captain Art Bosworth and Charlie Moore took first and second, and in the quarter-mile, when Lon Stowell and Bob White placed...