Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tale concerns Hidalgo County in far southeastern Texas. Twenty years ago Hidalgo was flat, hot, empty, covered with mesquite, stalked by lonely, dusty greasers. Today Hidalgo is a shining, fertile land, starred with endless constellations of grapefruit, melons and other juici- nesses?a lustrous feat of irrigation. Its crop is estimated at 4,500 carloads per year. Hidalgo homes are prosperous. Yancy Baker, onetime roughriding Hidalgo sheriff, now Democratic boss, lives in an enormous red and yellow showr place. Hidalgo people smile in the sun. Hidalgo ripens like its fruits. It has been irrigated financially through troughs of clever politics...
...relaxation he travels-anywhere and everywhere. He enjoys and has often played jazz. Boston prophets foresee his elevation to a regular conductorship. He planned the Esplanade Concerts for two years, typing innumerable letters, making endless calls. Now that the concerts are a reality, he finds himself-dark, stocky, energetic-something of a public idol. Boston ladies applaud himself as well as his music. When the wind blows across the Charles they draw each other's attention to "Arthur's" locks, gaily ruffled by the breeze...
...Bruno Walter, Robert Heger, Vincenzo Bellezza. Chaliapin heads the singers. The Paris music season, at its height from now through June, includes a series of performances at the Champs-Elysees Theatre by the Turin Opera Company, conducted by Tullio Serafin of the Metropolitan. Germany's offerings are endless. In Berlin, beginning May 19, operatic activities include Wagner, Strauss and Mozart cycles, festival concerts under the direction of Conductors Furtwaengler, Kleiber, Klemperer, Walter; guest appearances of the Scala Opera of Milan under the direction of Toscanini. In Munich, the usual Wagner & Mozart Festival takes place from July 23 to August...
...thing I like most about college boys and girls is their pep, which seems perfectly endless. The older generation,--mind you, I'm not including myself,--ought to feel sorry for all that they're losing...
...more humane conditions in war; there was interest in preserving the independence of the small nation. But all the treaties of civilization have not been able to outface primitive necessity. Why hope for anything better under the spire of a single morgue of past successes--and failures in the endless striving? At best the Peace Museum is a feeble hope; at worst, a jest...