Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been waiting to hear what stars would sing in the Metropolitan's long-debated 1932-33 season. Last week as he sailed for Europe Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza announced the changes. Soprano Maria Jeritza will no longer sing with the company. Mr. Gatti has had to cut his cloth to fit a season one-third shorter than usual. Jeritza and 26 others whose contracts expired have been dropped from the roster. Tenor Beniamino Gigli had a long-term contract but he chose to leave rather than accept less money (TIME...
...deplore the law compelling me to fine young men for the natural and healthy act of rolling down their bathing suits to the waist," declared Judge Stafford. "The day is coming when Australians will regard a loin cloth a sufficient covering and when young men will be proud to display fine, manly, suntanned figures...
...command of a Congo witch-doctor he will shoot his sixth, silver bullet at a squirming, greenweed crocodile. But other black men will come after him with silver bullets then, still beating their tom-toms. They will bring him out of the forest dead, all his fine clothes gone except for underpants torn to look like a primitive breech cloth. It will be time then for people to decide whether or not Russian-born Louis Gruenberg has successfully translated Eugene Anhelous Emperor Jones into opera...
...LONDON, May 8 (U. P.) Certain Americans are 'buying British babies like cloth over the counter,' the Sunday Express said today. 'The reason is that since the War the United States is eager to have British blood to improve her stock,' the newspaper said, quoting the price for babies at from $175 to $350 each. The newspaper gave few details but said wealthy Americans were making the purchases, insisting that the babies come from good families. 'One man offered $3,500 for a really blue-blooded baby,' the story said...
...Maurois biographical writing is a method of escape. Emile Herzog (he adopted the pseudonym since his first book, a war novel, was published while he was still an officer in the French army) was destined for the role of a "chef d'industrie" in his father's cloth factory in Elbeuf. But an active business career did not interest him. He turned novelist and for a while he was known as the "humorous author of a pair of war books." That was hardly satisfactory, but "from the entanglement of passion we escape by action." Action: where was it? Mr. Maurois...