Word: drews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...naval ambitions is to encourage qualitative rather than quantitative competition from the other powers. Example: Having heard rumors that Japan is building two giant battleships of between 40,000 and 46,000 tons, the British forthwith planned the Lion and Temeraire, each 40,000 tons, and the U. S. drew plans for two 45,000-ton battleships, most powerful in history...
...Nancy Drew--Reporter," the second feature on the program, tells a tedious tale of two ruddy-checked, adventure-seeking adolescents hot on the trail of two vicious murderers...
Purcell was English opera; it was born, lived, and died with him. He created a peculiarly national music-drama, which drew heavily on the popular Italian opera, but which also possessed an individuality and spirit more in keeping with English folk music. Such works as "King Arthur" are not operas in the ordinary sense, but combine in a different way music with drama. The story is told in plain, unaccompanied speech, and the music is interjected in incidental interludes, unconnected with the plot. Incidental music of this kind provided Purcell with his most fertile medium; "King Arthur," moreover, is commonly...
...Golden Gate Exposition has been Bubble Dancer Sally Rand's "Nude Ranch" which, in its first eight days of business, grossed $40,000. Rancher Rand thereupon flew East to consider a future job at the New York World's Fair. Instead of a job, she drew a summons. Sharp little Billy Rose had brought suit against her, charging that he originated the title "Sally Rand's Nude Ranch" at the Fort Worth Centennial Exposition in 1936, owns all rights...
...franchise for a Manhattan subway was first offered at public auction in 1892. Although potentially it was probably the most lucrative franchise ever offered, it drew a lone bid of $1,000, which was promptly rejected. The city thereupon decided to build the subway itself and August Belmont, then a financial outsider, came forward to act as contractor. When the line was finished in 1904, his Interborough Rapid Transit Co. secured a lease to operate...