Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Schumann: Duets (Lotte Lehmann soprano, Lauritz Melchior, tenor with orchestra; Victor, 4 sides). Top-notch singing of first-class Schwärmerei. One duet, a charming Germanization of Robert Burns's Wha Is That at My Bower Door?, would bring down any house...
...prosecutor as the "Judas of the Philippine Assembly." Leaving last December to face the SEC inquiry, he told loyal followers: "I wish to break a little confidence which the Chief Executive (Quezon) has told me. ... He said he . . . did not believe me guilty of the accusations laid at my door." Last week he was convicted of a part in the conspiracy, may be sentenced to two years in jail...
...were Alex Wilson, 75, and Nicholas Barcus, 74, friends since boyhood. Last week Nick was dead of a fractured skull and Alex in jail, charged with murder. Said Alex Wilson: "Nick and me, we never had any trouble. ... It was all over a little argument about Nick locking the door. He came up with a cane and said whoever said he locked the door was a liar. And I shouted back to him that he did lock it. Then he swung his cane at me ... so I swung back. ... I guess I must have hit him on the head...
...work, with an explanatory text by Quincy Howe (author of England Expects Every American To Do His Duty), is to be published in the U. S.* Covering the hectic years of 1932-39, most of the car toons have kept their timeliness surprisingly well. His interpretation of the "Open Door," drawn in 1934, anticipated by five years Japan's present at tempt to drive foreign interests out of China, an eventuality which the British Government at that time thought highly improbable. The drawing of the gorged wolves appeared on Dec. 2, 1938, shortly after Polish troops occupied Teschen, completing...
...commissioned RCA Victor to make a series of special recordings, guaranteeing their cost ($150,000) should the venture fail. The music to be recorded was chosen by the Post's Musicritic Samuel Chotzinoff, a key figure in the plan because he is close to RCA's front door: its President David Sarnoff is his good friend. Keeping it under their hats, such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, the New Friends of Music Orchestra recorded such works as the Beethoven Fifth Symphony, the Mozart G-Minor Symphony. Post readers could get each album (three or more disks...