Word: beene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, Composer Walton, who had hoped to be there on the night, was busy driving an ambulance somewhere in England. Wrote he, mournfully, in a letter to Violinist Heifetz: "I don't know when I will hear the concerto-perhaps never. I have been hoping that the performance will...
Delegates' biggest headache, which they quickly fell to discussing, was disagreeable publicity. In picture magazines and films there had lately been many a display of fraternities' swank, pranks, necking parties.
Since 1931, for the privilege of broadcasting to some 10,000,000 music lovers and a countless short-wave audience, NBC has paid the Metropolitan a cool $100,000 a season. Some years it has been higher, with sponsors like Lucky Strike, Listerine. This year there is no sponsor, but...
The opera has been Milton Cross's job, hobby, and spiritual sustainer for more years than NBC has been a patron. As a boy, vacationing from his Hell's Kitchen Manhattan neighborhood, he fought for the job of delivering butter to the great Louise Homer's country...
*Literally, "After the mirror having been broken 100 days, [I am] coming to the family homestead." The term "100 days" is used figuratively, to indicate a long time. Inmate Yun's sentence is two to four years.