Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opera was, in fact, going on-Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, best-seller of recent Metropolitan seasons, its cast headed in familiar top-notch style by Lauritz Melchior and Kirsten Flagstad. Evident from the first drop of Mr. Bodanzky's baton was a greatly improved orchestra. Not so evident, but present nevertheless, was a brand new stage floor capable of supporting even a Wagnerian soprano without creaking. Last season's major Wagnerian discovery, svelte Swedish Kerstin Thorborg, again drew critical superlatives for her performance as the vacillating Brangane. Youthful American Julius Huehn again donned whiskers, impersonated...
...other responsible U. S. businessmen the Recession was entirely too serious for gloating. They expected trouble, though not so soon, and if it was welcomed at all it was only in the sense that they hoped it would drive home to the Administration and the public the obvious fact that Capitalism cannot function indefinitely without the confidence of Capital...
Most of the 20,000,000 people in the U. S. whom the American Contract Bridge Association likes to think of as bridge players would not dream of saying "pass" when their partners have begun by bidding two in any suit. That interesting fact is due solely to 14 years of unceasing agitation by Mr. & Mrs. Ely Culbertson, who are to contract bridge exactly what Henry Ford is to motoring. They practically invented it and they have made a fortune...
THIS IS MY STORY-Eleanor Roosevelt-Harper ($3). Offered as "probably the most fearless and revealing of all modern autobiographies," this one is also remarkable for the fact-rare among wives' memoirs-that it contains nothing to embarrass the husband. First published serially in The Ladies' Home Journal (TIME, March 8), and now among the ranking bestsellers, This Is My Story is told without literary pretensions. Several cuts above her columnist style, but with the familiar homely, philosophical asides, This Is My Story traces Mrs. Roosevelt's successful struggle to achieve self-sufficiency, a social conscience, against...
...fact, America holds the key to the world's difficulties, at least in the economic sphere. For a century and a half, and especially since 1920, she has resolutely refused to contaminate herself with Europe's problems; the "Peace Act of 1937" was the isolationists' crowning achievement. In a series of two editorials to follow, the reasons for the utter impracticality of neutrality legislation and a few of the steps America could take to help prevent war will be briefly discussed...