Word: carp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indiscreet to carp at the plot of a musical comedy, but it is nothing short of a criminal offense for the authors of a show, in this case Messrs. Nicholson and Robinson, to deprive a trouper like Bert Wheeler of even the smallest semblance of a comic line. In fact, throughout the whole show there is a singular lack of hilarity...
...from milking a cow to the World of Tomorrow (see p. 10), visitors last week inspected a new panorama in 25 neat stages. In value per square foot it topped all other exhibits at the Fair; in cultural merit it was one of the few at which none could carp. It consisted of 400 paintings by the finest masters who worked in Europe between...
...ninth anniversary of King Carol's accession to the throne next week: 2,000,000 of them had no cow, 1,600,000 no pig. But as the high waters of the Danube receded, Rumania's 60,000 professional fishermen prepared to gather their regular harvest of carp and sturgeon trapped in canals and streams. And as spring surged up the Danube groups of young men in national costume moved from place to place, dancing in each village, in a four-week jaunt that dates from the days of the dancing priests of Attis. Over the white, dusty...
Died. Hirosi Saito, 52, onetime (1934-38) Japanese Ambassador to the U. S.; of tuberculosis; in Washington. A gay little man whose wife likened him to a tireless, leaping carp, Ambassador Saito was the youngest, most popular Japanese Ambassador ever to come to Washington. After the sinking of the Panay, which he called a "shocking blunder," he took the unprecedented course of apologizing over the radio, canceled all engagements, cried: "I'm in the doghouse...
Harvard Club of New York City: Paul I. Carp, of Brooklyn; Paul D. Foote, of Brooklyn; Murray A. Lampert, of Brooklyn; Heintzdieter von Schoenermarck, of New York; and Melvin Spitz, of New York...