Word: expectantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orchestra now numbers 72. Germans make up about half the number, the rest are Poles and Russians. Six are natives of Palestine which has several competent music schools but welcomes the new orchestra as its only permanent symphony. So many first-desk musicians are playing in it that critics expect the Palestine Symphony to rank soon among the first four orchestras in the world. Impresario Huberman is proud to have engaged for the forthcoming season such guest artists as Violinist Adolf Busch and Cellist Pablo Casals. After Toscanini takes the orchestra to Jerusalem, Haifa, Cairo and Alexandria this season, Issay...
...back a supply. She will stay in a refrigerated room in the Harkness apartment until Mrs. Harkness finds a zoo willing to put up $20,000 for another panda expedition. Sighed Mrs. Harkness: "I would love to find Su-lin a mate but that's a lot to expect...
Treasury officials expect the island to bring about $4,000. The average lighthouse sells for $1,750 to $2,500. Last sales were in July 1935 when five Maine lights went at prices ranging from $652 to $4,100. Expected to be a notable exception is Atlantic City's 82-year-old Absecon Lighthouse, also up for sale last week with bidding to close Jan. 5. After erosion had left the 167-ft. tower a perilous 75 ft. from shore, jetties were built, the sea restored its sand, the city sprawled out over the new land. Now Absecon stands...
Planning early and frequent money and morale-raising swings around the country. Chairman Hamilton will make his headquarters in Washington. Kansas acquaintances do not expect Mrs. Hamilton to join him there, soon or ever. For his full-time services, the Committee decided to pay $15,000 per year, plus $10,000 for "base expenses." Cracked Insurgent Republican William Edgar Borah: "That, as I understand it, is the customary salary of receivers...
...Goldwyn and Actor Gary Cooper for Sun Valley's premiere, is likely to leave Ketchum profoundly bored. Because the town is too small for a cinema theatre, they are unknown. Proprietors of Ketchum's Brant Hotel and its $2-a-day tourist camp dislike their new rival, expect it to spoil their trade. Rates at Sun Valley Lodge start down from suites at $48 a day to two-cot cubicles...