Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bavarian side of the frontier. The rumor crackled through Innsbruck, then spread with mounting terror through the Tyrol, through all Austria, that war had begun, the Nazi invasion was under way. From Vienna, Chancellor Dollfuss, delighted with his little war scare, announced that the maneuvers were merely the usual autumn field practice. He did not add that little Austria, which has just received official permission to increase its little army from 22,000 to 30,000 men, had last week 40,000 armed men on the Bavarian border. Supplementing the 22,000 regulars, the force is made up of drafts...
...stormy autumn night three years ago French peasants near the cathedral town of Beauvais stared in terror at a huge rain-drenched silver mass that lurched over their heads and into a nearby hillside. They heard three thunderous explosions, saw a gigantic blinding blaze. It was the end of Britain's ill-fated R-101, the end of Britain's hopes about lighter-than-air craft. For in that roaring hillside furnace burned the bones of most of the men who had fought for the dirigible program: Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, Secretary of State for Air; Sir William...
...cargo of dyestuffs. While he unloaded and reloaded at Baltimore, eight Allied warships waited in fanwise formation outside the three-mile limit. The Deutschland slipped through them, carried Captain Koenig home to a triumph that was redoubled when he made another round trip to the U. S. the following autumn...
Michael Matsakas has never sold a painting, never exhibited one in a gallery, never painted a nude. He had long looked upon Mr. Rockefeller as a great man. Last autumn Michael Matsakas painted his portrait from a photograph, a firmly painted, kindly portrait of a hale old man wearing a dark blue tie. For a Christmas present he sent it to Mr. Rockefeller with a note, "I always have been a great admirer of yours and the wonderful things you have done for humanity." A month later, just after New Year's Day, he got it back with...
...lolanthe had its U. S. premiere only last week. It was revived for the New York Musicians Emergency Fund in the outdoor theatre of Sleepy Hollow Country Club, at Scarborough. Soprano Lola Monti-Gorsey as lolanthe, Bass-Baritone Vasily Romakoff as the king, easily outdid a strident chorus of autumn katydids, sang their roles with grace and finesse. Guest of honor was sixtyish. grey-haired Margaret Eichenwald, who was coached for the role of lolanthe at its premiere by Tchaikovsky, now teaches voice at the Vocal Studio in Manhattan. The other was the conductor, Eugene Plotnikoff...