Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...husband out of his clutches, the first rule is to keep quiet until success is complete. Last week U. S. Airman Harold ("Whitey") Dahl, who was captured by the Rightists while fighting for the Leftists, sentenced to death and then reprieved (TIME, Oct. 18, et ante), had every reason to wish that his wife had not burbled, "I used on General Franco all the sob technique I learned in my years on the stage." In appealing by letter to Franco to save Whitey, Mrs. Dahl enclosed a picture of her handsome self in a low-cut evening dress, afterward claimed...
...over Windsor last week, was the Rt. Rev. A. W. Blunt, Bishop of Bradford, England. It was he who preached the first Anglican sermon critical of King Edward VIII. This British newsorgans used as their excuse for abandoning their conspiracy of silence about Mrs. Simpson (TIME, Dec. 14, 1936, et seq.). According to friends of Dr. Blunt last week "his nerves have been badly shaken"; he recently took to his bed when scheduled to be presented to King George & Queen Elizabeth; and this week he was expected to enter a sanatorium, feeling that but for his sermon Edward might still...
...Hamburg last week the Nazi judge of non-Aryan Shipowner Arnold Bernstein (TIME, Nov. 29, et ante) made sure that the Fatherland will secure possession of the Red Star and Arnold Bernstein Lines (Garage Ships). At the end of a complex trial the court fined him $400,000, sentenced him to two and a half years in jail...
With the recently announced election of Edward K. Rand, Pope Professor of Latin, to the Institut de France, Harvard now has four members in this distinguished French academic society. Rand and Charles R. Lanman, Wales Professor of Sanskrit, Emeritus, are now colleagues in the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres of the Institut; and Professors George D. Birkhoff '05, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Philippe-Jules-Fern-and Baldensperger, professor of Comparative Literature, are members of other academies of the Institut...
...noted French musician of his generation. It was not as the concocter of that booming bit of cafe music that Ravel drew this world-wide homage, but as the composer of two operas, numerous songs and chamber music works, and of a half-dozen suites and tone poems (Daphnis et Chloe, La Valse, Rhapsodic Espagnole, Alborada del Gracioso, Ma Mere I 'Oye, Le Tombeau de Couperin, et al.) which have long ornamented the symphonic programs of three continents. A miraculous orchestrator and an adept at poetic description in sound, fastidious, precise-minded Ravel had, following the death of Claude...