Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Malcolm Holmes will conduct the Wellesley College Orchestra in a concert at Paine Hall tonight. The program consists of rarely played music dating from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries and opens with Studentenmusik Suite No. 2 by Johann Rosemuller (1620-1634). Also to be heard are Bach's Concerto for two violins in D minor; Gluck's Sinfonia to the ballet-pantomime, "Don Juan"; Bach's Cantata No. 202, "Weichet nur, betruebte Schatten"; Two Instrumental Pieces by King Henry VIII; and Gretry's Overture to "Le Rival Confident." The music is certainly unusually interesting and gives further proof...
...when, in the course of a public house argument about metaphysics, he orders the chandelier to turn upside down. The chandelier does so. When Mr. Fotheringay lacks presence of mind to order it back into place, it falls on the floor and breaks. Thrown out of the saloon for conduct unbecoming to a gentleman, Mr. Fotheringay goes home to experiment with his new found knack. He conjures rabbits, kittens, gold watches and finally a bunch of grapes which he nibbles contentedly before he falls asleep...
...group of administrative experts arriving today will stay about one or two weeks, when another group will come to continue the discussions. A grant of $65,000 was received from the Rockefeller Foundation to conduct these three preliminary sessions...
...Traylor knew that the assets of her deceased husband's estate were all that stood between Mrs. Busby and her children and comparative privation. Yet he was willing to stake their all on a rise in the market. . . . His conduct . . . was not only imprudent and negligent but positively reckless...
Sisi gave Franz Joseph two more children, a boy and a girl. At Rudolf's birth Franzi was so overjoyed that he decorated the infant with the ancient order of the Golden Fleece. For once Sophie could find nothing wrong with Sisi's conduct but when her fourth grandchild was unpatriotically born in Hungary, Sophie was ostentatiously uninterested, even sniffed doubts of its legitimacy. What with Sophie's suspicious enmity and Franz Joseph's fond indulgence, it would have been a miracle if Sisi had turned out to be a model wife and mother. No miracle...