Word: birching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bare-kneed, clean-scrubbed nine-year-old Michael Spivak stepped to the podium of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Dignified Sir Ernest MacMillan, the Toronto's conductor, gravely stepped down, handed Michael his birch baton. Michael handed him an ocarina in exchange...
...Thank You, Mr. Molotov." Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov was somewhat nervous when correspondents entered a room paneled in Karelian birch. He held a papirossa (cigaret) near its lighted end, and the smoke curled about him as he read an announcement...
Once more she floated by. Toscanini's birch baton stopped in midair, his left arm was raised in a gesture of supplication. Then he dropped both arms to his sides, jutted his square chin forward, lowered his head. The orchestra gave...
...book fulfills it. It is a character study of Mrs. Sibyl Jardine, who lived in an old house set on a round hill surrounded by beeches and birch trees. Mrs. Jardine was a mystery. She fascinated children and worried their parents. The Ballad and the Source begins when she invites her neighbors' daughters, Jess and Rebecca, to pick primroses and have...
Other Brödel pupils represented in the show are Hopkins' Ranice W. Birch and Annette Burgess, Mayo Clinic's Russell Drake, Yale's Armin Hemberger. Their pictures clearly demonstrate that a good medical artist takes pleasure in beauty as well as scientific exactness. Most delicate are Miss Burgess' paintings of the tissue at the back of the eye, with each vein in glowing color. There is also a careful picture of a seven-and-a-half-day-old human embryo magnified 500 times (see cut), which James Didusch took two months to draw...