Word: enaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knew as the greatest of dancers. For months at a time he speaks no word. He still hears the echo of War guns. His dead, dumb eyes see soldiers dying around him. Sixteen years have passed since Vaslav Nijinsky danced in the U. S. But this winter the re-enact- ment of many of Nijinsky's great roles by the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe has aroused fresh talk of his genius (TIME, Jan. i). Next week will be published the story of Nijinsky's life, written by his wife.* Romola de Pulszky was a 17-year-old Hungarian...
...mysteries of the Metropolitan Opera Company has been its failure to engage Baritone John Charles Thomas, to reintroduce Tenor Paul Althouse. Last week Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza endeavored to make up for lost time. Baritone Thomas was ordered to get himself into tail coat and top hat and enact the worried parent in Traviata. Plump Tenor Althouse, who sang at the Met twelve years ago, was told to slip on a bearskin for Siegmund in Die Walkure...
...railroads from the operation of all Federal and state anti-trust laws; 3) continue and expand a liberal government lending policy until private capital can be obtained; 4) reorganize the 44,000 mi. of railroad now in receivership or bankruptcy with a sharp reduction in their fixed charges; 5) enact legislation for the I. C. C. to compel consolidations; 6) revise the clause in the Emergency Transportation Act limiting any reduction in the number of railroad employes...
Only England remains to enact the final tragedy of a trusting proletariat; the Labour Party is all that remains of the vast labor movement of the early twentieth century. The murder of an already senile Labour Party is perhaps not far off. Recent municipal elections, good indicators, have been strongly Labour. Predictions of a Labour victory in the next general election are heard more frequently. If Labour should finally get a working majority and really attempt something, there is the House of Lords to stop it, produce a stalemate. The King would piously call for Nation before Party, allegiance...
When Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated President and the Democrats obtained full control of the Government it was a foregone conclusion that the seventy-third Congress then in session would be called upon to enact one of the most ambition programs of legislation in our history. Conditions in the country called for heroic action. The people were not only ready for it but with new hope turned eager eyes toward Washinton. Members of Congress realized the great task ahead but it is doubtful if any one with a force and precision that marks a new niche in the effectiveness...