Word: countryman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tune that dampened the eyes of Warden Herbert ("Cap") Smith and beefy Deputy Tom Meikrantz was a Chinese prisoner's song, written and sung in quavery, North China dialect by Canton-born William Yun. (Yun was jailed six weeks ago for working the badger game on a wealthy countryman named...
...centre court were 21-year-old Bobby Riggs, U. S. No. 1, and Elwood Cooke, an unheralded 25-year-old Oregonian who had defeated France's Christian Boussus, England's Bunny Austin and Germany's Henner Henkel on his way to the final. Against his fellow countryman, however, Cooke faded. In a seesawing five-set struggle, Riggs finally...
...assembles labor statistics and has negotiated more than 50 treaties bettering worldwide working conditions, proved last week that not all diplomatic wangling is confined to its parent, the League of Nations. To succeed resigning Director Harold Beresford Butler of Great Britain, U. S. Delegate Robert Watt proposed his fellow countryman, social-minded, Lincolnesque John Gilbert Winant. British Delegate Joseph Hallsworth wanted Assistant Director E. J. Phelan of Eire elected. Delegate Hallsworth accused the U. S. of applying diplomatic pressure for Mr. Winant. Pointed answer of Delegate Watt: Compared to Britons, Americans are "diplomatic novices...
...long had an ambition to establish an operatic festival of similar quality in England. In 1933 at Copenhagen he unfolded his scheme to round-faced Conductor Fritz Busch, German political exile and famed former conductor of the Dresden Opera. Enthusiastic Maestro Busch called in the help of his expatriated countryman, Stage Director Carl Ebert. With Austrian Impresario Rudolf Bing as General Manager, the first Glyndebourne opera season was launched. It lasted two weeks; the audience for the opening performance numbered twelve. But Christie, Busch, Ebert and Bing were undiscouraged. The press gave them a big hand. In 1936 they enlarged...
...position as a great musician, he is very appreciative of appreciation, collects, reads and rereads every small item that is written about him in the most provincial newspapers. On the subject of his interpreters he is diplomatic, has indiscriminately praised Conductors Koussevitzky, Beecham, Werner Janssen and his countryman Robert Kajanus. He has a comforting motto: "Better have it played badly or wrong than...