Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rifles, Ammunition, Artillery, Limbers, Shells, etc. Imported direct from Italy. Now on view at the Old Manchu Arsenal, Sanchiatien...
With the Japanese Press shrieking "Perfidious Albion" last week, Lord Lee in London gave a lie direct to the memorandum of the late Adolph S. Ochs and it seemed unlikely that Charles Evans Hughes would unbend as Chief Justice of the U. S. to tell what cannot be told by such dead men as President Harding, Publisher Ochs and Lord Balfour, who led the British Delegation at Washington. Said Lord Lee: "Lord Balfour and I found that plan a complete and absolute surprise...
...control from old Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. for $7,300,000. When President Gibson decided to inspect his new offices in Manufacturers Trust, he started from New York Trust Co., where he was executive committee chairman, walked briskly a few blocks, hesitated, finally had to ask a policeman to direct him to the bank he had just bought...
...Thomas was obviously having fun. So was the audience, which has come to realize that with all his antics he is a true musician with a firm, direct beat, a rare sense of rhythm, a clear conception of everything he plays. Except for a youthful Mozart symphony Sir Thomas presented an all-British program. An overture by the redoubtable Dame Ethel Smyth was commonplace noise. Delius was represented by a sensitive, finely spun dance from Koanga, a delicate serenade from Hassan. Vaughan Williams' London Symphony has seldom been made so eloquent, with its suggestion of the ever-rolling Thames...
...Minneapolis Eugene Ormandy has developed steadily, proved himself a serious, painstaking musician, a good judge of programs with a simple, direct way of presenting them. In Philadelphia his toughest job will be to hold an audience long accustomed to the excitement which Stokowski invariably provides...