Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City's Lewisohn Stadium last week went hollow-eyed Willem Van Hoogstraten, having conducted the New York Philharmonic Orchestra there for three weeks. After a program of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Bach and Brahms (apparently his favorite composer), he was given tokens of esteem in recognition of his ten-year association with the Stadium concerts, set out for Philadelphia to direct the Philadelphia Orchestra concerts in Robin Hood Dell Park. Next he will go to Europe, return in the autumn to conduct his seventh season in Portland...
After two weeks at the Stadium, he will go to Philadelphia where he, too, will conduct a week at Robin Hood Dell...
...would be presumptuous of me to attempt to lay down rules for the conduct of others, but I don't mind telling you what my own rules of conduct have been. They are like so many lamp posts guiding me through life's pathway and they have guided numberless of my coworkers...
...with what everyone present considered a moral victory, Walker immediately asked for a match with Schmeling. In his dressing room, he learned that his first wife, Mrs. Maude Walker had attached $27,800 of his $42,000 share of the receipts, filed papers accusing him of "almost diabolically inhuman" conduct. Sharkey, taciturn before a fight, always feels very free to talk as soon as he can get his gloves off. Not at all ashamed, he said: "Inactivity beat me. . . . I thought I won. . . . He's nobody's mug and much tougher than Schmeling. . . . I'll fight again...
...Jersey and married Maine's prettiest girl, fanned up and down more excitedly than ever. He had no more than delivered the Hoover proposal at the Quai d'Orsay than all France began to pout because of the notion that the U. S. President had neglected to conduct any preliminary discussions with her. Time and again, Ambassador Edge's motor hummed through the Place de l'Alma, across the Seine at Pont Alexander III and back to the Foreign Office, where he assured Premier Pierre Laval over and over that the U. S. had not discussed...