Word: cues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking their cue from the Senate, Democratic leaders of the House promptly put the resolution to extend the temporary neutrality law to a vote, passed...
...billiards, three-time champion at 18.1 balkline billiards, current cushion caroms champion, in a challenge match against loud & confident Welker Cochran, to whom he was runner-up in the tournament at Chicago last November (TIME, Dec. 2): the world's championship at three-cushion billiards (in which the cue ball must hit at least three cushions before touching the second object ball), a title for which he has campaigned diligently since 1927: 360-to-246, in 340 innings; in Chicago...
...bank cashier in his native Appleton. Minn., a man who displayed his deep-seated ambition by being hardworking, meticulous, self-denying and an ardent Farmer-Laborite. Then Governor Olson made him State Securities Commissioner, later State Banking Commissioner. His appointment to the Senate last week gave him his cue, and he launched into the political theme song which fellow Senators may expect to hear whenever he speaks: "The reactionary elements of our country which have been lying dormant, biding their time, are again assembling their strength, closing their ranks for a decisive clash with Progress...
...roles she had never sung before. Only for these last two did she have the benefit of stage and orchestra rehearsals. But no one could have guessed it. To her colleagues she scarcely seemed human until the final Parsifal when she fell asleep on the stage, almost missed her cue...
...which lands her in prison, weasels her freedom only to philander in Paris with gamblers, procurers, swindlers. End comes in a sordid London attic where Lulu is brutally murdered by Jack the Ripper. Berg's orchestra then sounds out a shuddering scream. The New York Philharmonic took the cue faithfully, startled half its subscribers who still had to hear Soprano Agnes Davis emit a wailing postlude. Strapping young Agnes Davis, who has made her mark at Philadelphia Orchestra concerts, was supposed to be a Countess Geschwitz, as bewitched by Lulu as were the many men who loved...