Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party of Norwegian scientists from the sealer Brattvaag put ashore on desolate White Island northeast of Spitsbergen three weeks ago. About 150 yards from shore they rounded a big rock, stopped, stared with amazement at a litter of cooking utensils laid bare of ice by the August sun. The same question sprang to the mind of each, the same name to all their lips: "Andr?...
Died. Patrick A. ("Paddy") Roche, oldtime fight promoter, proprietor of the famed Red Carpet Saloon (first Manhattan cafe to have a carpet), referee of the bout in 1889 when John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain after 75 bare-knuckle rounds at Richburg, Miss.; of heart disease; at the Hotel Breslin, Manhattan...
Result: Tisha b'Ab passed peacefully if uncomfortably. A reader intoned Jeremiah's lamentations by the light of a tiny flickering oil lamp. Jews squatted on the bare stones, straining to hear, but did not tarry long for the crowd was great and many were waiting to worship. The British constabulary called it the quietest as well as one of the biggest Tisha b'Abs on record...
Moussorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain by Philippe Gaubert and the ?Paris Conservatory Orchestra (Columbia, 2 records, $2 ea.)?In three parts, this glittering, skirling fantasia fully reveals the mind which created Macbeth-like Boris Godounov. Bizet's Adagietto from L'Arlésienne Suite, on the back of the second disc, recorded by Willem Mengelberg and Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam...
Three of the 32 stamps in the Goya issue (11˝, 46˘, $1.15) are reproductions of that acid genius Francisco Goya's best known picture La Maja Desnuda ("The Nude Maia"), a portrait of the bold, bare, buxom Maria Teresa, Duchess of Alba. The picture caused trouble when Goya painted it.* Trouble continued last week...