Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife who winces at being called Lady Passfield, insists she is Beatrice Webb. Lately these two leading Socialists, Laborites and economists set out on a junket to Moscow. If they thought they would receive a luxurious welcome such as was lavished last year on George Bernard Shaw (TIME, Aug. 10), they were right. The Soviet Government threw open its expensive "Guest House" for the Lord & Lady. With the discrimination of an epicure Lord Passfield ate and ate of caviar...
...that attracted Clevelanders to their big, year-old Municipal Stadium ("Tin Horseshoe"-prices $3 top). It was an opera week for Cleveland, built up by the same two who, under Impresario Guy Golterman, directed Cleveland's first outdoor opera (for charity) last summer (TIME, Aug. 10): 26-year-old Laurence A. Higgins, and Dr. Ernst Lert, onetime Metropolitan Opera stage director (whose sister-in-law Vicki Baum was in Cleveland last week). This year they have organized a group called Laurence Productions Inc. "to present grand opera as they see it" in many cities. In Cleveland they rebuilt last...
...Tourists of the U. S. country fairs are Belle, Snuffles, Betsy, Percy and Biddy-all models from the Department. Belle is a cow who waggles her mouth, spurts milk. Snuffles is a sow, Betsy and Percy her bloated shoats. Biddy is a hen who has traveled to England (TIME, Aug. 11, 1930). Biddy and Belle phonographically declare what they like to eat. Snuffles pleads for clean pastures. The shoats squeal...
...most & right reverend bishops of the Lambeth Conference of the Church of England and its affiliates were last week chided, as they have been before, for their pronouncement in 1930 that birth control may in some cases be effected by other methods than complete abstinence (TIME, Aug. 25, 1930). Last year the Lower House of the Convocation of Canterbury appointed a committee to consider the Lambeth resolution. Kept secret until last week, this committee's report deplores progressive weakening since 1908, when the bishops called birth control "demoralizing . . . hostile," and 1914, when it was "dangerous . . . sinful." Courteously the report...
...operatic staples, Aïda does best outdoors. Consequently, Aïda's familiar tunes ring sweetly every summer in many a U. S. stadium. Biggest and most pompous ever was Cleveland's last summer, in which more than 1,000 performers (including the animals) figured (TIME, Aug. 10). Washington had an Aïda last fortnight, presented by that seasoned Aïda-man, Maestro Alfredo Salmaggi. In New York's big Polo Grounds Maestro Salmaggi presented successive null at $1 top price, culminating in 1930 with one in which there were elephants as well...