Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...launched aviation as a major cinema subject with Wings in 1927, thereafter rated as one of the industry's top specialists in aviation epics. More lately his forte has been screwball comedies (Nothing Sacred). To Wellman these apparently dissimilar types seem closely connected. The extraordinary conduct of Pat Falconer in Men With Wings illustrates his belief that Wartime fliers experienced such intense emotional turmoil that none of them afterwards could adjust themselves to normal living...
...concert is to open with Haydn's Symphony No. 86 in D major, one of the "Paris Symphonies" composed about 1786. Owing to some indisposition of Dr. Koussevitzky's, little Richard Burgin, Concert Master of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will conduct both the music of Loffler and Haydn...
...editorial entitled "The Mood of the Riotous" Dean Holmes analyzes the "educational issues involved in any clash of this character." He discusses in detail the extent to which the University should be responsible for the actions of a large body of incoming students new to the standards of conduct of the college...
...would seem obvious," he writes, "that no college can be sure that its influence will control the words and actions of a large group of newly admitted students. Admonition at opening meetings and the clearest statement of regulations governing public conduct on the part of students may sometimes be ineffective, especially if the group of incoming boys is large...
...Governor of Rhode Island, asked the Board of Tax Appeals to allow him income-tax deductions of $373,112. Reason: He had wagered $4,084,797 at his own race track* in 1935 and 1936, failed to recover all he bet, considered the losses as incurred in the conduct of his business...