Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little attention to the fact that Ah Wilderness sober-minded and frivolous to chuckling, that Without End, the following year, failed. Son of actor whose name was known 48 years ago, attended Princeton in 1906 7. Wanderlust caused him to leave college. He a good deal of Central and South America, spent two years at sea, is supposed to have been a beach-comber for a time before he returned to America...
...which a skillful restorer can similate the surface quality of an old master is seen in the painting of the "Pieta" by Carlo Crivelli, a 15th century Italian artist. The whole central portion of this picture was destroyed, and early in the 20th century restoration was undertaken by an able Italian artist, who entirely repainted the center portion, following other original works by Crivelli, and imitating the master's materials and technique very closely. Even with the X-ray it is hard to tell where Crivelli's work leaves off and the modern artist's begins, but by careful observation...
...other eastern ports. In handling European shipping into the Midwest, Albany's new rate status puts her on a par with Philadelphia, behind Baltimore, ahead of New York. Another gain from last week's decision was the I. C. C.'s order to the New York Central to absorb wharfage charges in Albany as it does at Boston...
...Middleton studied music at Juilliard for four years against the wishes of his father, a member of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. He took a nonsinging role in Roberta for two years, made his baritone debut last summer singing Gilbert & Sullivan in St. Louis and Central City, Colo. To replace Baritone Julius Huehn, he went to Chicago fortnight ago to sing star parts in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Gruenberg's Jack & the Beanstalk, was engaged to repeat the performance. The latter role requires a shrill falsetto. Undaunted, Baritone Middleton boasted: "I have a freak voice...
...gives $5 to his son, $5 to his daughter, pays a bill and goes on a bat, winding up robbed by a street walker after knocking out a fellow drunk. His son wanders down Broadway; his daughter falls in love in Central Park. Author Calmer has broken up this Manhattan idyll with four long interludes that are made up of snapshots of city life: quarreling tenement dwellers, lovers lying on the roof in the heat, card players in a midtown hotel, a pair of middle-aged Lesbians quarreling, a sailor picking up a girl. Main trouble with When Night Descends...