Word: foes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturday night the Crimson Lion killers will become Tiger hunters, and their task more difficult. Like Harvard, Princeton is undefeated and untested by any serious foe. That they have a strong team is amply shown by the 54 to 21 drubbing they gave a mediocre Fordham team in their last meet before midyear, three weeks age. This was the third win of the Tigers, who had previously sunk Rider and Light by lopsided scores...
...full-dress, 484-page biography that Tchaikovsky addicts will find sympathetic, non-musical readers interesting if partly incomprehensible. With only a slight stiffening of technical talk and musical illustration, "Beloved Friend" is a revealing human document on the genus musician, Russian species. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, known to friend & foe alike as "the culmination- almost the last stand-of the Romantic Movement in music," was a Petersburg law student of 22 when he first became seriously interested in music. Once he caught fire he blazed up. But he had no money, had to support himself by teaching a heavy schedule...
...Nashville Tennesseans, relics of the financial empire of Promoters Luke Lea and Rogers ("Bank on the South") Caldwell. have been operated by a receiver. Last week, on a Nashville sidewalk, the receiver sold the Tennesseans to Nashville's home-grown Financier Paul Maclin Davis, long-time Lea & Caldwell foe. who was sole bidder. Price of the Tennesseans: $850,000. Liabilities...
...that country has ever had, but Premier Leon Blum and his "New Deal" have brought a series of nationwide strikes and political headaches. Adolf Hitler in 1936 tore up the last shreds of the Treaty of Versailles, but Der Führer has yet to grapple with an external foe, and his "victories" to date have nearly all been in Germany's backyard. Insane though the international butchery in Spain became during 1936, and even though it may end in another World War, no masterful Man of the Year had emerged from Spain. Things there were just about...
...daily Court Circular, which is supposed to chronicle all important movements of members of the Royal Family, omits all of the above, fails to appear. The House of Commons: There are cheers for Stanley ("Old Sealed Lips") Baldwin and louder cheers for his political foe Winston Churchill, who has got 60 M. P.'s to sign with him a round robin telling the King that if he accepts Mr. Baldwin's resignation Mr. Churchill is ready to obey a command to become Prime Minister and his King's Men will support...