Word: beginning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...finish?" angrily at Nanking last week boomed massive "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang who, born a peasant and still a peasant, delights to shame more refined Chinese officials when he can. There was last week no getting around the fact that the Nanking Government had sent out orders to begin executing on New Year's Day Chinese caught selling, buying or smoking opium, and that beginning New Year's Day nobody had been executed for that crime (TIME, Jan. 11). This, according to the Christian Marshal, was outrageous. With Old Testament fervor he demanded that the Chinese Government...
...Boom! Boom! Boom!" More than a million people, princely and middle class, proletarian and peasant, swarmed into The Hague last week-so many that all its hotels and lodging houses could not begin to hold them. Restaurants and cafes received special permission from Her Majesty's Government to keep open clear around the clock. Ten thousand Netherlands soldiers had not so much the job of keeping order as of making sure that no gin-sipping celebrant fell into one of The Hague's canals, and none did. Piping hot Dutch chocolate, served from Army field kitchens with cake...
...Thousands sat in the shadow of suits of mail, under priceless canvases, close to marble sculptures. Thousands could not see the musicians' stand, yet all 15,000, one of the biggest indoor concert audiences ever assembled, applauded deafeningly when a slim, silver-haired old man walked on to begin conducting his twentieth series of eight free Saturday performances by a 65-piece symphony orchestra...
...Eternal Road begins in the depths of an ancient musty synagogue, somewhere in central Europe, some time in the Dark Ages. A terrified congregation has fled there for protection from their Aryan neighbors. To comfort and strengthen them the rabbi and his elders bring out the Scroll of the Law from the Ark and begin singing the history of their melodramatic race...
...begin to cast suspicious glances towards heaven. I shall hide myself quickly under the table and sit there tamely and quietly, without raising my voice." Chekhov took his success and its inevitable criticism calmly. The one shaft that got under his skin was that, almost alone in a socially-minded day, he took no interest in social problems. Chekhov certainly did not believe in Art for Propaganda's sake: he thought that "a writer should be just as objective as a chemist." But he surprised his critics by suddenly taking himself off to the Island of Sakhalin, Russian penal...