Word: donning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, Composer Strauss continued to startle and scandalize staid concert audiences in more subtle ways. He flouted time-honored symphonic proprieties by writing naturalistic musical descriptions of mundane scenes and events. In his symphonic poem, Don Quixote, he made the brass instruments of the orchestra bleat like sheep. In his...
Technically under detention for landing on Irish soil without a passport, Gone Again Corrigan was this week as free as wire. And in Washington, where B. A. C. Chief Denis Mulligan was expected to decree some penalty for the outlaw flight there was a twinkling hint that whatever Corrigan had...
Just what this broad promise meant became apparent last week as PWA Administrator Harold L. Ickes offered 21 municipalities a total of $9,527,995 to build plants of their own though they are already served by private utilities.* To receive these beneficences, the 21 municipalities, said Mr. Ickes. must...
The Times, same day, admitted the caption writer had "misunderstood the instructions. . . . Those who don't make mistakes never make much of anything else."
Natty, sandy-mustached Manager Holliway is a jealous guardian of the radio time he controls. He tossed a bombshell into the 1936 election campaign with the announcement that KFI and KECA would not carry President Roosevelt's fireside chats during the campaign unless the stations were paid for the...