Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artificial Inspiration. In Chicago, Benjamin Bauer thought he saw a big white cat drowning in Lake. Michigan, jumped in to rescue it, yelled for help, explained after his own rescue that he had forgotten he couldn't swim, was arrested for disorderly conduct...
...Britain's House of Lords conservative, aristocratic Esme Bligh, Ninth Earl of Darnley, rose to propose a motion: "that this house hereby affirm its belief that peace will only be established ... by the adoption of the Christian commands of neighborly conduct." Viscount Addison felt "some regret that the noble Earl was not able to make some more practical and effective suggestion. . . ." The League of Nation's roommate, aging, disillusioned Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, could not believe that such a resolution would "advance the cause of peace in the very slightest...
...Prophets. For Communism is not only a political science but a religion, and its conduct is governed by dogma as well as by reason. . . . The modern icons are the heroic statues and portraits of Lenin and Stalin in every public building and the huge portraits of the minor prophets carried by the believing multitudes on holidays. . . . The parish letters to the faithful, which are the leaders on the front pages of the newspapers, solemnly declare that the Soviet Union is the most blessed nation in the world because it has embraced the one and only true faith, and that...
...once, the vice governor drove in his car to Planty Street to see what was afoot. By that time the crowd numbered 5,000 and was eager for action. Police arrived too late. Jews were lured out of the building by men in army uniforms who promised them safe conduct, then turned them over to the mob. Twenty-seven victims were taken to a nearby schoolyard and knifed, clubbed or stoned to death. Seven more were killed after being dragged from a train. At week's end 41 Jews and four Gentiles were dead, and as many more were...
...Toscanini concert and had been refused in favor of Paris and London. Then Toscanini, mad at the way Italy was faring at the hands of the Big Four, huffily canceled his dates in Paris and London in protest ("I personally am not in a state of mind to conduct [because of my] sadness for unjust political decisions."). Suddenly the city of Lucerne got word that the Maestro was willing to play two concerts there-the first one five days from date. Toscanini had a sentimental memory of Lucerne: it was the city where he had conducted the night before...