Word: australia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Committee of Thirteen of the League of Nations is the same thing as the Council of the League of Nations without Italy. Last week the League delegates from Argentina, Australia, Chile, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Great Britain. Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Spain and Turkey hitched themselves up to a green baize battle between handsome, toothy Anthony Eden of Great Britain and bald, moose-tall Pierre Etienne Flandin of France...
...back to Cambridge and to Dunster House and was glad to see that Dr. Elliot Porter has put twenty of his fine photographs taken in Australia and parts of New England on display. There is some mighty fine work here...
...black men because they are a source of cheap labor. Labor members of the Australian House of Representatives ignited a blaze of protest against the execution of Old Ludwig. To Labor the ''Sane Government" coalition of Prime Minister Joseph Aloysius Lyons replied that capital punishment is Australia's law, sharply adding that Labor seemed to want one law for blacks, another for whites. Finally the Government Ministers pointed out the fact that for reasons unknown to anybody but himself, Old Ludwig had refused to appeal his sentence...
Experimentation was largely limited to new performers who come cheap compared with new productions. Of the 19 new singers, only two achieved a real success. One was Australia's Marjorie Lawrence, who at 28 and with only three years' opera experience undertook the difficult Brünnhildes in Die Walküre and Götterdäm-merung, made news in the latter by mounting her horse, actually galloping from the stage in accordance with Wagner's ambitious directions. The other was Sweden's Gertrud Wettergren, who proved herself a sure singing actress, strode...
...blue" for boxing, made more friends, did some studying and began to think for himself. His first encounter with Carlyle did not impress him: "What a queer man! At first his style reminded me of an illiterate Japanese journalist writing for an English paper in Australia!" His letters to his father began to bristle with awkwardly unanswerable questions...