Word: finished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...singing the role of murderous Count Guido who stabs to death his wife and her parents. As he pretended to kill old Pietro, he turned his knife aside in traditional opera style, accidentally slashed Basso Joseph Sterzini between the thumb and forefinger. Sterzini pooh-poohed his wound, wanted to finish the scene. Tibbett, his friend for 15 years, had a tourniquet applied and sent for Joseph Siegel, the Metropolitan's doctor. Dr. Siegel found that an artery had been cut and sent Sterzini to the hospital. There, five hours later, Basso Joseph Sterzini died. Hospital authorities said: "Shock resulting...
...fetch Comrade Trotsky from the seacoast to the 7,000-ft. high plateau on which stands Mexico City, Lest anyone do the Great Exile a mischief El Hidalgo stopped some miles outside the capital and Mr. & Mrs. Trotsky, with six Mexican detectives permanently assigned to them, alighted to finish their journey by motor car.* This whisked them to the spacious suburban residence of fat and smoldering Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, an ardent Trotskyist, friend of President Cardenas, and casher-in on the John D. Rockefellers (Father & Son) who in art "know what they like...
...Government started something it is not going to finish?" angrily at Nanking last week boomed massive "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang who, born a peasant and still a peasant, delights to shame more refined Chinese officials when he can. There was last week no getting around the fact that the Nanking Government had sent out orders to begin executing on New Year's Day Chinese caught selling, buying or smoking opium, and that beginning New Year's Day nobody had been executed for that crime (TIME, Jan. 11). This, according to the Christian Marshal, was outrageous. With...
...himself up like a ragamuffin and fooled his uncle into giving him three kopeks. His teachers were fond of him, but none of them thought him exceptional. When he was 16 his father failed in business, packed his family off to Moscow. Chekhov stayed behind in Taganrog to finish school. When he joined his family three years later, he found them in worse straits than ever. Thereafter, though he had two older brothers, it was Chekhov who was the family breadwinner...
...already competed in four events that day; his .best previous time for 1,500 metres was 4 min. 47 sec. In a wildly exciting race, against Belgium's Boulanger, who, though the crowd of 80,000 did not know it, had no chance to beat his total, Morris finished first in 4:33.2. Disgusted with himself, he was walking off the track when officials called him back. An error in computing his earlier points meant that he had set a new world's decathlon record with 7,900 points. Currently returned to obscurity as anonymous announcer for National...