Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the curtain went down for the last time Caterina Jarboro came to the apron of the Hippodrome's gulf-like stage to answer wildly enthusiastic curtain calls. Her arms filled with bouquets, more piled on the floor around her, she knelt in acknowledgment. Tears welled to her eyes, her voice choked as she thanked two leading stage characters of her race for their tributes, Tenor Paul Robeson and Dancer Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson...
...Races begin and end with a bang. The biggest event is always the last-the Thompson Trophy Race (in which a 300 m.p.h. landplane record was this year's objective). Next in importance, although spectators see only the finish, is the Transcontinental Bendix Trophy Race which raises the curtain. This year's Bendix race, starting from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., was a battle between the builders who divided highest honors last year-Z. D. Granville and Wedell-Williams. Granville of Springfield, Mass, is famed for his fat Gee Bee in which Jimmy Doolittle made a world record...
...Phyllis Bentley's such a book might be a reductio ad absurdum of both subject and method. But Authoress Bentley's intentions and accomplishment are honorably serious. Though she sets the stage with such reverent care that the reader expects a notable if not tycoonish hero, the curtain has not been up long before alert spectators realize that the spectacle will be unspectacular. Authoress Bentley succeeds, however, in transfiguring her average man into a man-sized hero. Says she: "Why . . . should not one of the crowd, one of those who maintain, those who transmit, have a standard biography...
Progress at the World Monetary & Economic Conference began in London last week with loud wincing from Chief U. S. Delegate Cordell Hull. "Everything I do is misconstrued these days!" he wailed, then rang down a quick curtain on the comedy of contradictions in which U. S. Delegates seemed to spend most of their time repudiating each other's mimeographed proposals (TIME. June 26). Meeting in a series of secret, sweating sessions Mr. Hull, earnest & sincere, and his strange assortment of colleagues worked to evolve belatedly a program on which the whole U. S. Delegation could stand. That job took...
...When the curtain rose on the first act, those present consisted only of the cast, the critics and one spectator...