Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those who enjoy romantic lapses into the eighteenth century with elusive visions of elegant soirees with flickering tapers and the sparkling tones of the clavichord, the recording of Hadyn's "Concerto en Fa pour clavecin et orchestre" should be an especial delight. A small orchestra accompanies Mme. Roesgen-Champion in such a manner that the clavecin and the timbres of the woodwinds and strings blend together unusually well. There is no profundity in this bit of Haydn; even the andante is a very short and simple tune. "His Master's Voice" has also released a recording of Bach's Double...
...Napoleon et son Empire," Professor Merriman, New Lecture Hall...
...testimony filled 10,000 pages and the exhibits filled a 10 ft. shelf. The action was brought in 1931 and the six- month trial in 1932 was one of the longest on record. There was no jury, no spectators. Concluded last year, U. S. v. Sugar Institute, Inc. et al. was the most important anti-trust case since the dissolution of Standard...
...writers who hold themselves aloof from the contemporary scene, Albert Jay Nock is one of the loftiest. Like the anarchist who enjoyed his freedom from all political allegiances, Bystander Nock is in the comfortable position of running no danger that his superior wisdom in economics, politics et al. will be put to a test in practice. Not given to the loud laugh, he has spent much of his time recording in his journal his amusement and disgust at his fellow-countrymen's behavior. Unfriendly to authority, he has a rooted conviction that the leaders of U. S. democracy...
Newspaper readers who remember the Gastonia, N. C. mill strike (TIME, Aug. 12, 1929, et seq.) will recognize bits of the ensuing trial scene. Trial highspots: the prosecution raises a laugh against a defense witness by hanging on him the old joke about getting syphilis in a toilet; the defense successfully counters by showing that a prosecution witness once got drunk, took a horse into a church. The 15 defendants were pronounced guilty; Ring leader Marvin got 25 years in jail. Harry Baumann, caught trying to set fire to his father's mill, sought a final sensation by shooting...