Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concert was sandwiched in as part of a show given by the Chinese Cultural Theatre Group, a troupe that had reached Manhattan by way of several west coast cities. Their play-acting was not up to Chinatown's level. But the music, delicately played on half-a-dozen unfamiliar exotic instruments, was as tangy and pungent as a 25-year-old egg. While Musician Sung Yue-tuh drew subtle wheezes from the sheng (4,639-year-old ancestor of the harmonica), and Wang Wen-piao sawed at his erh-hu (two-string fiddle), the audience took it politely...
Storm (see cut), a fragile swirl of trees, a tethered and terrified stallion and grey space of storm cloud. At 45, accounted one of the dozen most accomplished U. S. painters, Kuniyoshi has begun to make money after years in which he "did everything but commercial art" to keep alive. One thing annoys him: having been born in Japan he cannot become a U. S. citizen...
...eager is the Amateur Skating Union to make an impressive showing in international competition that they sent a half-dozen U. S. topnotchers abroad last winter to pick up experience. At the European-style Olympic tryouts last week the investment paid its first dividends. Although the No. 1 speed-skating event of the year had left the Oconomowocians cold, the American Olympic Committee announced that next year's team will be the best ever sent to the Olympics. During the week three new records were etched into U. S. skating history...
...Artists and Models Abroad." Of course the film makes no sense whatever; it is a conglomeration of disjointed ideas, situations, people. But it does manage to be entertaining, fairly consistently. "Mother Nature's big mistake," our own rip-snortin' Buck, is stranded in Paris together with a few dozen bathing beauty winners, and not a penny to his name. Non, pas un son. During the course of his wanderings in and out of hotel doors (and windows) he happens upon the fourth richest girl in America and kindly offers her a place to sleep. Believe...
...year-old Champion Sonja Henie, who gave an exhibition oi kating in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden the likes of which New Yorkers had never seen. In 1932 she came again-for the Winter Olympic Games-and regained for a series of charity ice carnival n a dozen U. S. cities. Every pig-ta led girl who saw her swirling in a fairy-like froth of marabou dreamed that some day she might skate like Sonja Henie...