Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fourth item was somewhat less usual. Magistrate Michael A. Ford took up the case of a trio of respectable citizens accused of biting & scratching each other in a subway fight, ruled: biting & scratching is legal in subways, does not constitute disorderly conduct, because "herding of people like cattle" is enough to make anyone...
...conduct is exemplary," protests Joe, "it's not so much for the sake of clean living as for better sculling." He drinks no liquor, tea or coffee, never smokes, does not play cards, slot machines, or the horses, swears only "when the occasion demands." The word necking makes him blush. He is mighty sweet on ice cream, and-though jealousy for his amateur standing has kept this a secret-eats Wheaties for breakfast...
...next concert in the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Sanders Theatre series will come on Thursday evening. Nikolai Malko, a Russian who has been active in Russia and the Scandinavian countries as a conductor and teacher, will conduct the orchestra in a rather unusual program consisting of Rossini's Overture to "la Gazza Ladra," the First Symphony of Shostakovitch, Max Reger's Variations on a Theme of Mozart, and Tchaikovsky's "Capriccio Italien." The inclusion of both the Rossini and the Tchaikovsky makes the program as a whole rather light. We are not acquainted with the Reger composition, but we hope...
...making an international ass of yourself, Unity!" she was told at the Bayreuth Music Festival last summer by candid young Cambridge Poet Stanley Richardson, protege of the Archbishop of York. Asinine indeed had been her conduct ever since she let the Führer pick her up originally in a Munich cafe in 1934. "I want everybody to know I am a Jew-hater!" she soon wrote to the Stürmer, the notorious Nazi anti-Semitic organ, "England for the English-out with the Jews! Heil Hitler!" By last summer the Führer was visibly tired...
...tunesmith (Lady Play Your Mandolin), 5) one-piece piano virtuoso (the famed Gershwin-Grofé Rhapsody in Blue), and an intermittent pupil of famed Arnold Schönberg, who taught him how to write complicated high-brow music. When, nine years later, he returned to Manhattan to conduct and arrange music for shows by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, Oscar Levant was jack of a dozen musical trades...