Word: curtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's oration was the grand finale to Italy's summer war games in Sicily, was evidently intended to be a curtain raiser for new developments in Italian foreign policy. Throughout the Fascist Empire 43,000,000 Italians, obedient to orders of the Fascist Grand Council, stopped work, streamed into public squares to hear broadcast their master's voice. A squad of interpreters scribbled furiously to translate the speech into 18 languages for the benefit of the world at large...
...indeed. Dark, wiry, as fleet-footed as ever for his years (40), the maître de ballet and choreographer of the famed troupe did not appear to have his mind entirely on his work. He kept glancing toward the wings, grimacing and nodding at someone offstage. When the curtain fell, Massine hastened backstage. There, summoned by urgent telegrams both from Massine and from the impresario of the troupe, Colonel Wassily de Basil, stood the beauteous prima ballerina assoluta of the Rome and Milan operas, Attilia Radice, and her journalist and balletomane husband, Paolo Fabbri...
...vexed by bombers as a horse by flies, London during the World War finally tried a preventive worthy of Jules Verne-a "balloon apron" of gas bags tethered on the outskirts of the city by 10,000-ft. cables. From them dangled a curtain of cables in which enemy planes were supposed to tangle like flies in a spider's web. Only one German plane hit the barrage, smashed through, escaped. Yet fear of the apron did force the attackers higher, thus impairing their marksmanship. This year, therefore, in its frenzy of rearmament, Great Britain is again preparing...
This "Notes and Comment," like nearly all of its predecessors was written by Elwyn Brooks ("Andy") White, not elderly (38), not eccentric, but melancholy and increasingly troubled about the world. It was his curtain speech in The New Yorker. He was going away on a year's leave-of-absence, maybe a dozen years, to give himself time to think about progress & politics, whether to get out of their jumpy wake or try to catch up with them. He will probably consult with his melancholy colleague, James Grover Thurber, who is now in Europe sending back an occasional piece...
...Washington there were definite signs that the curtain was coming down on what Correspondent Jay Franklin called "hot aeronautics" and "the prima donna type of aviator." The House Naval Affairs Committee prepared to consider legislation which would prohibit the Navy from undertaking costly searches for lost aircraft unless the latter were in regular commercial service or on missions of "unquestionable scientific value." Pilot Dick Merrill, who flies the Atlantic by dead reckoning, and Manhattan Columnist Mark Hellinger were bluntly refused permission to make a round-the-world flight. Snapped Assistant Secretary of Commerce Colonel John Monroe Johnson: "From...