Word: commands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When The Lives of a Bengal Lancer last week had its Manhattan premiere, critics unanimously acclaimed it with all the adjectives at their command. Admirers of Author Yeats-Brown will find it as faithful to the spirit of his book as it is faithless to the text. Good shot: Lieut. Forsythe discovering that the squeakings of a reed flute, which he plays to annoy Captain McGregor, have attracted the unfavorable attention of a cobra...
...Next day Rabbi Wolf received newshawks in the midtown Manhattan Synagog where, at an annual cost of $500 to New York City, he is the only registered voter. Wearing a black skullcap, he tabulated chassanim according to their worth as husbands. Most in demand are doctors, who may command a dowry of $12,000. Rabbis get from $7,000 to $10,000, businessmen $5,000 or $6,000. Dentists are not in demand and, said the Rabbi, "a lawyer no one wants. People are afraid of lawyers, I don't know...
...vast State Opera filled to bursting. All correspondents were shut out. Everyone inside was sworn to utter secrecy. An hour and a half later the Opera disgorged. That night it filled again with the same secrecy-sworn galaxy of leaders. They heard Tannhauser sung. To perform by special command of Der Reichsjilhrer, beauteous Prima Dona Maria Mueller, half German and half Czech, had been all but jerked off the boat on, which she was about to sail to Manhattan's Metropolitan...
...Wildenstein show of portraiture by command was Mr. Salisbury's first exhibit in the U. S. in six years. On view were Cardinal Hayes in his princely robes; J. Pierpont Morgan looking royally severe; the late Calvin Coolidge (lent by the Antiquarian Society of America), the late George Fisher Baker Sr. (lent by U. S. Steel Corp.), Myron Charles Taylor, LL. D. (also lent by U. S. Steel Corp.), Nicholas Murray Butler, D. C. L., LL. D. (lent by the Archaeological Biographical Society of New York), Walter Sherman Gifford (lent by American Telephone & Telegraph Co.), Eugene Grace (lent...
...direct command of GHQ Air Force will be a hitherto obscure field officer named Frank Maxwell Andrews. Not since Roosevelt I jacked John Joseph Pershing from captain to brigadier-general in 1906 had the Army seen so notable a promotion as that which promised last week to elevate Frank Andrews from lieutenant-colonel to brigadier-general. A onetime cavalryman, Col. Andrews is tough, fiftyish, handsome. Army wives call him the best-looking man in service, like to remember the romantic thrill he gave them in 1914 by taking his bride on a horseback honeymoon in Virginia...