Word: baton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasionally loses patience with the chorus. At a rehearsal early this week he laid down his baton and said. "How can you look at me and your music at the same time? The answer is no." A couple of Radcliffe girls in the back row kept on with their knitting...
...authentic picture of General Yague. What the Reverend Thomas Higgins mistakes for Communism's hammer & sickle is the insignia worn for at least 30 years by Spanish infantry generals and continued as the insignia of Rebel generals. It is a four-pointed star with baton and sword crossed behind it. TIME is amazed at Father Higgins' opinion of journalistic ethics. TIME never knowingly publishes an unauthentic photograph, never has, never will...
Born in 1879, son °of a wealthy British pill manufacturer (Beecham's Pills: "Worth a Guinea a Box"), hearty Sir Thomas got an early start waving a baton over orchestras and operatic casts. In 1906 he founded the New Symphony Orchestra (now the Royal Albert Hall Orchestra), and in the next three years doggedly conducted a series of Queen's Hall concerts despite discouragingly small public response. In 1911 he was instrumental in bringing the Imperial Russian Ballet to London, two years later combined it with a season of Russian opera. Many English composers...
...Pops have a strange recollective quality about them, and the Vagabond sits with a claret lemonade in his hand steeping himself in the past. He remembers this same Symphony Hall under the uncivilized spell of Benny Goodman's baton and marvels that a building can be so versatile in its atmosphere. He remembers a superb woman violin soloist of former years who later married a popular Boston orchestra leader, and while the purples and reds of Ravel swirl from the orchestra, he wonders how in the world the management reaches those chandeliers to change the bulbs. He sees disillusioned Seniors...
...Harvard two-mile relay also won its race. Northrop returned from his mile to run anchor. The baton was carried to him by Jack McClure, Joe Bradley, and Al Hanlon. Rhode Island was second, and the Dartmouth quartet was third...