Word: fracases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bayreuth will suffer sadly if exposed to Hitleritis. Toscanini has not conducted in Italy since the fracas over the Fascist anthem. Boston hurt herself more than she hurt Karl Muck when she ousted him on an unproven Wartime charge of pro-Germanism. After the Revolution. Russia forced most of her...
Since the signing of the Armistice, in 1918, about twenty wars of varying size have been fought all over the world. There were the Imperialist and Polish wars against the Soviet Union, the Grace-Turkish fracas, the Poles versus Galicia, the Afghan invasion of India, and the war between Roumauta...
Died. Wilton Lackaye, 69, famed actor; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Famed chiefly for his role of Svengali in Du Maurier's Trilby (1895), he played for years on Broadway. One of the founders of the Actors' Equity Association, he was an early member of the Lambs...
"Communists, flattered at drawing White House fire, gladly took all credit for the Washington disturbance.* Most impartial observers, however, doubted if the rioting could be really attributed to them. John Pace was in jail at the time and his handful of Red followers were not identified as actively participating in...
No longer would judges try their own contempt cases growing out of a labor fracas. Instead defendants could demand a jury, even another judge.