Word: drews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Academy of Music, an industrious writer of acid, modernistic scores, has long believed that the only important function of music is to encourage revolution. In 1929, while staid London music lovers frowned and looked the other way, London's musical leftists, led by Composer Bush, drew throngs to a class-angled production of Handel's venerable sacred oratorio, Belshazzar. Handel's serene 18th-Century score was sung with traditional massiveness by a chorus of 1,800 voices. But it was so staged that the fall of Handel's Babylonians was made to represent the fall...
Meantime he had his ups & downs. In 1902, Republican Seth Low became mayor and Jimmy Hines lost the city's horseshoeing business. For $3,500 he sold a share in the smithy to one Klenke. Hines drew $75 a week for himself and about $4,000 a year out of profits, but after 1907, when he was elected alderman, politics was his real profession. In 1912 he sold Klenke the rest of the smithy for $7,000, and with a man named Madden went into the trucking business, fattening on city contracts for snow, garbage, rubbish removal. After...
...Manhattan last week, having had as much advance publicity as Ringling Bros., Salvador Dali's new exhibition drew crowds that made the swank Julien Levy Gallery surge and prattle like the Normandie at sailing time. In the first five days sales totaled five drawings ($300-$800) and 14 paintings...
...sided scores featured the opening round of the Eastern polo Intercollegiates, as the favorites won in every match. At the same time the Crimson team, which drew a bye in the first round, succumbed by a score of 10 to 6 in a tune-up match with the Ridgewood team of Essex Troop at Newark...
...their schoolmates tune in Adolf Hitler's broadcasts to the U. S. One little girl at Manumit could not be persuaded to take off her underwear when she went to bed, had nightmares in which she dreamed that German storm troopers broke into her room. A boy constantly drew pictures of machine guns, tanks, people shooting Hitler...