Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sibelius now working on his Eighth Symphony is bald, rotund, 68. He lives in a rambling two-story house in Jarvenpaa, 20 miles from Helsingfors. When U.S. tourists visit him he will tell them that he was never a prodigy, that he dislikes Wagner and physical exercise, loves Johann Strauss waltzes, once taught briefly at the New England Conservatory in Boston-and that no visitors are admitted to the second-floor studio where he does all his work...
Results of public ownership propositions in local elections on Nov. 6 had been anything but reassuring. By last week it looked as if the utilities were in for one of their worst spells of political badgering. In Washington the Federal Trade Commission, in the eighth year of its holding company probe, released a fresh batch of hair-raising findings. The new Federal Communications Commission announced a thoroughgoing investigation into American Telephone & Telegraph Co. A.T. & T. stock promptly plunged $10 per share, and President Walter Sherman Gifford felt impelled to assure his security holders that there were no skeletons...
...Manhattan, once every week, to a grubby little room on Eighth Avenue went a check from the city relief bureau. The old couple who lived there were always waiting. First thing they did when the check arrived was to buy a bottle of gin. Then they sat on the stairs, guzzled gin, laughed and howled and slapped each other on the back. Last fortnight, after one of their bouts, the tipsy husband tried to light the gas heater. While he fumbled with the matches, gas flooded the room, brought Death to the old couple...
TIME, Oct. 15, says Imperial Airways charges one-eighth the U. S. airlines' [personal] accident insurance rates...
Uptown: "The Count of Monte Cristo"--excellent adaptation of Dumas' thrilling story of adventure, love, and revenge a la mode under the last of France's Bourbon monarchs. Robert Donat, who was last seen in "Henry the Eighth" does yeoman work in the leading role and is capably supported by Elissa Landi and Louis Alberni who is at his explosive best. Also, "La Cucaracha"--colorful short based upon the song of Villa's men--captivatingly sung and danced...