Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regular winter programs of Los Angeles' 20-year-old Philharmonic Orchestra. Golden Age of the Los Angeles Philharmonic was between 1919 and 1933, when the late copper tycoon William Andrews Clark Jr. lost $250,000 a year on it. When the cornucopia stopped flowing at Clark's death five years ago, a group of conservative Los Angeles socialites managed to keep his orchestra alive, but gave it less lavish rations. Proud were they of getting as permanent conductor world-famed Otto Klemperer. While the plump palms of Los Angeles' highty-tighty delighted to honor the Los Angeles...
...live together as man & wife. At last, ill, frenzied, half-insane, Edith demanded a separation, accused him of trying to put her in an asylum. When she died (in 1916 of pneumonia) Havelock recalled with anguish a remark of Queen Victoria's after her husband's death: "Nobody contradicts me now, and the salt has gone out of my life...
...years passed, that he never had T. R.'s energy nor his intuitive understanding of the progressive movement, that his judicial temper fitted him less for the Presidency than for the Supreme Court, on which he sat as Chief Justice from 1921 until shortly before his death...
...essential Perfect Woman; married, raising a family, standing at the center of its vicissitudes, learning, at the end, to "believe at last with whole heart in all the dark splendor, all the terrible beauty of the world." Her flawless marriage darkens and dulls, her bachelor friend is lost to death, found again in spirit, her husband dissolves into alcohol and she brings him through, her daughter dies in childbed, the Lusitania sinks, the promising son turns out disappointingly, Harding is elected, widowed Emily Fenwick meets...
Dawson's specialty is setting fire to his hands and setting it creep slowly up his arms. "It really only tickles although most people think that you are burning to death...