Word: cert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like the family Stein, There is Gert, there is Ed, there is Ein; Cert's poems are bunk, Ed's statues are punk, And nobody understands...
...Conservative headquarters party workers gathered, talked of Oct. 28 as the "dead cert." election date. Opinion hardened that the hesitant P.M. must decide for an election soon. Suddenly to cap Scot MacDonald's woes came an ultimatum from Mahatma Gandhi. Impatient of delay by the Indian Round Table Conference, Mr. Gandhi said that a month of further delay because of a General Election would be intolerable, would make it necessary for him to return to India. King George, too. was said last week to be opposing an election, fearful perhaps of social upheaval...
...Brahms program as if completely bewitched by the slight, grey-haired figure, swaying constantly, sometimes singing along in a thin, croaking voice. The smart audience was also hypnotized into perfect behavior. It arrived punctually, never once applauded at the wrong time, saved its coughs for intermissions. After the con cert there gathered backstage Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay of the Phil harmonic Board of Directors, Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Packer Charles Henry Swift and his wife Soprano Claire Dux, Pianist Jose Iturbi, Violinist Joseph Szigeti. Hovering benignly about was tall, handsome Bruno Zirato, onetime personal representative of Enrico...