Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arms sideways RAISE. He took each position as if to a bellowed command. Trunk forward BEND. He dipped way over the 'cellos. Sideways LUNGE. That was a pale little passage for the violins. Right arm upwards RAISE. It was for the tympanist to see him. Rotate the trunk and arms in regular count. That was for the full band. He postured this way and that, flung his body into a dozen foolish positions. For five minutes and more the audience sat in a smothered giggle. Critics were delighted to see a new conductor who would make good copy...
...COMMAND TO LOVE?One of those things about European diplomats who have more than one love to give for their country. (TIME...
...Benito Mussolini. The outstanding "free port" of Europe continues Gibraltar -a city of exotic bargains dear to tourists. At the new Italian "restricted free ports" a small duty will have to be paid on only a very few kinds of articles-these "to be announced later." By invitation and command of Signer Mussolini, there was completed, last week, a score for the new Fascist Hymn of Labor. Composer: Pietro Mascagni, creator of the score of Cavalleria Rusticana. Fascist critics cried "solemn, melodious, impetuous," when his new opus was performed at Rome, last week, by a 250-piece brass band...
...great Marshal Chiang Kai-shek journeyed from Shanghai to Nanking, last week, and there fulfilled his announced intention of assuming supreme civil and military command of the "Nationalist Government" (TIME, Jan. 2). Soon he reorganized the Cabinet, appointing as Minister of Finance his wife's brother, T. V. Soong, and as Minister of Reconstruction his step-nephew by marriage, Sun Fo (son of the late, "sainted" Dr. Sun Yat-sen). Excitement brewed and seethed as Marshal Chiang ordered into immediate session some scores of delegates who have remained impatiently assembled in Nanking eager to become the Nationalist Party Congress...
...COMMAND TO LOVE?Snappy stories about European diplomats (TIME...