Word: duet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Nazi propagandists baying on her borders, Denmark has issued an appeal to Norway and Sweden for a united front against Hitlerism, external and internal. The external attack which the Danes fear is an attempt by Germany to seize Schleswig, that famous member of the Schleswig-Holstein duet which was such a factor in European politics of yester-year. The theft of Schleswig, they say, is one of the primary objects of the Nazi regime, being desired not simply as an additional pasture for German cows, but as a symbol of Teuton expansion and the first of many successful conquests...
...spoons, portraits, electric toasters and the radio aerial. John D. Rockefeller (Clifton Webb) totters after his son with a knife when he learns the family owns Radio City. Mahatma Gandhi (Mr. Webb in a sheet) plans a vaudeville act with Aimee Semple McPherson, in which the two sing a duet and execute an off-to-Buffalo. Mary of England learns that the Prince of Wales has misbehaved on a goodwill trip...
...chase which comes when a bull, not the mild educated one that he expects, but a monstrous angry black one named Diablo, pursues Cantor about the ring and then into the aisles, loping lightly over a high fence. Cantor chloroforms the bull, climbs into a box seat for a duet with Lyda Roberti. She is a Senorita Rosalie whose friend Anita (Ruth Hall) admires Cantor's friend Ricardo (Robert Young...
...weeks. So long as the felon was "engaged in his employment, or maturing his felonious little plans," Pianist Schelling could play no solos. He could, however, and did, conduct the Saturday Philharmonic concerts for children, to whom he is known as "Uncle Ernest." Last season he tried a piano duet with Harold Bauer, exclaimed wryly afterwards that it was "tough going...
...assertiveness. Out of the trenches, Jean Tourenq was made a tax collector, 12th class. He had political ambitions. Taxgatherer Jean Tourenq advertised himself as "The Taxpayer's Friend," and every taxpayer who called with a list of complaints found Jean Tourenq eager to join a duet on the evils of the Government...