Word: facings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most important event of the Metropolitan's week was the revival, after 14 years, of Verdi's Falstaff. To sing its title role, Baritone Lawrence Tibbett donned a five-bushel stuffed stomach and so plastered his face with make-up that only his lips and eyeballs could move. Getting him into his costume took four men an hour and forty-five minutes. Tibbett himself sweated away five pounds during the performance. The audience, delighted by the ingratiating and sophisticated Verdi score, thought the effort worthwhile...
That building is approaching a boom largely because the Government is underwriting mortgages up to 90% no one could deny. Colonel Ayres warned: "The most urgent economic problem that we face is that of making next year the transition from this pump-priming recovery over into a long-term recovery carried forward by business instead of one pushed along by Government. . . . Our people have quite generally become convinced that Government is primarily responsible for business activity. It is as futile for us to believe that we can spend ourselves rich as for us to suppose that a man can drink...
...fortnight hence the Farm Problem will be in the hands of the 76th Congress. Since a good part of the 76th is made up of men who got their jobs from discontented farmers, Administration farm policies face their first real test. Last week's farm referenda confirmed the indications of last month's political elections. Secretary Wallace has no reason to look forward hopefully to the 76th Congress...
Just so none of Der Angriff's readers would miss the contemporary point of this parody-parable, the face of Mme Magda Lupescu, the part-Jewish mistress of Rumania's King Carol, was used to illustrate the article. And to ram it home, next day the Frankfurter Zeitung's comment on Carol's shooting of Rumanian Nazis was concluded with the observation: "At some time, one is inclined to believe, Rumania will see a revolution, perhaps very soon...
...conventional clutch is a cushioned disk (connected to the transmission gears), which takes power from the engine when it is forced against a disk on the face of the engine's spinning flywheel. In fluid drive the flywheel is equipped not with a disk, but with a sort of water wheel. Facing the blades of this water wheel is a similar set of blades on the transmission shaft. The two sets of blades are enclosed in a sealed compartment filled with light oil. As the flywheel gathers speed, the blades attached to it set the oil in motion...