Word: beste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flat Major, with dignity she dumped the saliva from her horn, rose and went home to practice for this week's concert. The young woman's name was Ellen Stone, and playing with such topnotchers as the Budapest Quartet bothered her no whit, for she is the best woman French horn player in the world...
Died. Adolphe Max, 70, Burgomaster for 30 years of Brussels, last of Belgium's three great heroes of World War I (the others: King Albert, Cardinal Mercier); in Brussels. Great & humane bachelor Burgomaster Max protected his people as best he could when German troops occupied Brussels and this time let no one doubt that his sympathies were still strongly with the Allies...
...want it to be what the World Series is to baseball, what the Rose Bowl is to football." Thus chirped 25-year-old Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt in the fall of 1937, when he invited four of the best race horses of that year to compete in an entry-free, post-season race at Pimlico...
...vain. The adverse trend up to 1935 was definitely checked. This year's ice sales are estimated at 9% above 1935's. But the effort that checked the trend has not reversed it. In 1926 some 1,500,000 iceboxes were sold; in 1936, best recent year, only 600,000, and in 1936 2,000,000 electric "iceboxes" were sold...
Disputed Passage (Paramount) recounts the up-to-date version of the believer who loses his faith-the strict scientist who loses his atheism. This cinematic sermon is based on a novel by Lloyd Cassel Douglas, retired parson, whose best-selling Green Light and Magnificent Obsession, both successfully picturized, both treated other phases of the same conversion...