Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...followed by a Guggenheim Fellowship which gave him two years' study in Paris. There he picked up sophisticated technique but he kept his drive and a bit of the ungainliness which he has never quite outgrown. Luck was with him when rich Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge sponsored his chamber music, when her imports, the Pro Arte Quartet from Belgium and the Roth Quartet from Budapest, decided that his was virile U. S. music which was well worth playing widely. Two years ago the Boston Symphony played Harris' Symphony...
Only British statesmen who do not electioneer are the members of the House of Lords. Debate in their chamber was featured by unusual and concentrated cynicism, almost as if the dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts and barons felt it incumbent last week to say what would not be said by vote-coaxing Cabinet bigwigs...
Rendezvous (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Based on Herbert O. Yardley's American Black Chamber (TIME, April 17, 1933), this picture deals with the technique of counter-espionage at Intelligence Service headquarters in Washington during the War. Though the intrigue is sometimes unintelligibly involved, the story is swiftly paced, manages by a parade of ingenious tricks to provide sustained entertainment. It also arouses wonder that, with German spies as thick as fleas and clever as foxes, the War Department managed to keep any secrets whatever...
...this time by some queer premonition drew the ladder after him. The old woman had left a fire to welcome the fellow; the candies had burned their life away. Things were different tonight; as if some ominous cloud had set about the Tower. The moon shone into the chamber in a doubtful, suspicious manner. All kinds of weird shapes quivered on the wall. And now there struck a deep-booming, yawning bell. Twelve o'clock...
Since then, despite the fact that sociologically the death penalty exists only as a horrible warning to others, most newspapers have soft-pedaled electrocutions. Newshawks, many of whom leave a death chamber retching, rarely report such details as the victim's mouth foaming, hair burning, flesh giving off sparks. Exception was the Ruth Snyder execution in 1928, when the tabloid New York Daily News attained a U. S. circulation record of 1,556,000 by front-paging a photograph of the husband-killer in the electric chair. That picture, called by Editor & Publisher "the most sensational ever seen...