Word: ets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Future Sol Blooms should have no trouble finding the graves of Bill Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, et al. For, unlike those forgotten Justices of the Court's early days, the Olympians over whom Charles Evans Hughes presides have indeed made history...
...dander up. Tough "Umbrella Mike"*knows much about the dark & bloody side of Chicago unionism, twice went to jail (for contempt of court, conspiracy to restrain trade). He was also tough enough to call out Edgewater Beach electricians, declare a strike. Allied with the electricians were waiters, cooks, busboys, et al., who joined Mike Boyle's picket line on April...
...tons of oil in 1940; 2) to keep the Allies (whose nationals, together with Belgian, Netherlands and U. S. capital, own 80% of Rumania's oil production) pacified while this is going on. Sir Reginald Hoare, British Minister at Bucharest, applied Allied pressure, warning Professor Netta et al. with grim politeness that Germany's quota of Rumanian oil must on no account be increased, least of all out of wells developed by Allied money. Professor Netta et al. replied that Germany's quota would not be increased, but the decline in Rumania's oil production must...
Author Cabell claims credit for at least sticking closer to the original story than Shakespeare did. He certainly sticks closer to Cabell than to the Vikings. Like his score-odd previous tales (Jurgen, et al.), the trade-mark of Hamlet Had an Uncle is arch pedantry, medieval rhetoric, amorous innuendo...
Siegfried et al. In the early 1920s, when the late Enrico Caruso died and Soprano Geraldine Farrar retired, the Metropolitan's Italian opera began to limp downhill. But its Wagnerian opera has goosestepped steadily on. When big, blue-eyed Soprano Kirsten Flagstad joined the company in 1935, Wagnerian opera began to boom, played to the biggest box office the Met has known since Caruso's day. Principal drawing card in the Met's Wagnerian productions was Soprano Flagstad's bosomy personality and earth-mother voice. But she could not have done it all by herself. Supporting...