Word: built
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...admiring wife says: "Sibelius continues to live at a tremendous pace, with great intensity and energy. He is still like a young man full of dreams and hopes." He stands erect as a general, his ivory- colored dome rising from strong heavily-built shoulders; he still clothes himself with meticulous care, favors a double-breasted blue or grey lounge suit, a broad-brimmed felt hat; he wears specially built, handmade German shoes; on his numerous walks he stalks through the country swinging a heavy stick. And 72 or not, like all true Finns he takes his sauna (Finnish steam bath...
...when, one evening in 1887, a sturdy n-year-old boy, 4 ft. tall and dressed in a sailor suit, marched out on the stage of Manhattan's new Metropolitan Opera House. The solemn youngster seated himself on a high chair at a piano whose pedals had been built up to be within reach of his short legs. In the wings offstage stood the boy's mother, an opera singer of Warsaw, and his father, who had taught him to play the piano so well that he was already the talk of Europe. Soon, from out front where...
...fate of the play lay in the hands of young Broderick Crawford. 210-lb. ex-football player, son of Comedienne Helen Broderick. Built up into a hulking, shuffling imbecile by means of four-inch shoes and padded shoulders, Crawford won sympathy for a monstrous character, playing Lennie as a pathetic giant who kills as innocently as an unintentionally offending child. Next to Crawford's goosefleshy characterization, that of Actor Hamilton as Candy came closest to the realism Author Steinbeck strove...
...original Dock Street Theatre, sold in 1749, was followed by two successors, both destroyed by fire in the next 50 years. On the site in 1806 was built Charleston's famous Planters' Hotel, where dusty Southern palates cooled to prime Planters' Punches. Remodeled in 1835, the hulk of it stood in dejected shabbiness 100 years later, when the FERA, on the prowl for projects, adopted the idea of Mrs. Burnet R. Maybank, wife of Charleston's mayor, for salvaging the old hotel and reconstructing the historic theatre at the same time...
...machines in order to copy them for home production. Thus it is possible in the vast Soviet Union to see the newest machinery, the latest street car, the last word in streamlined busses-imported as models. The Soviet is presently to see the world's newest, biggest airplane-built in the U. S.-long before any such craft exists in any other country. Last week, after months of secret construction, this giant had its first tests near Baltimore...