Word: giante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jack & the Beanstalk, the opera by Writer John Erskine and Composer Louis Gruenberg, pleased children and grown-ups so much that it was rescued from the limbo predestined for most amateur productions. Established, bass-singing cow, squeaky-voiced giant and all, in a regular Manhattan theatre, it will have at least a two-weeks run. (For picture of cow, see TIME...
...when their success is the result of "high-power organization," with a chief in Florida able to execute his will in Chicago, he wins the unthinking approval of the American public as does the broker who controls the market from his country estate, or the president who starts giant turbines two thousand miles away by a touch on a telegraph key. The speeding fire engine, the pursuing police patrol, or the fleeing armored car are alike in pursuing their objects fast, noisily, and "efficiently." After all, aside from aims and standards, the successful criminal represents much that is worthy...
...office. Architecture flourished in Thebes; Dr. Breasted has uncovered a royal palace. In Luxor he found records of the migration of the Etruscans to Italy-Europe's first immigrants. In Asia Minor the Assyrians had built their civilization, Sargon II had raised his great palace, put the two giant bulls to guard it; the Hebrews had made history, Solomon had left his stables for the Institute's diggers to uncover. From Solomon on man's course was rising faster. At his party last week Dr. Breasted read a communication from a man who was known by name...
...immediately went President T. Higbee Embry of Embry-Riddle Co. (aircraft), presented it with three giant iguanas, guaranteed to be worth the price of admission...
...male and a female of the shyest of all species of African antelopes, the Bongo, and a Giant Forest Hog, so large that it might be mistaken for a small rhinoceros, are the latest very valuable additions to the mammal collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. The animals were shot by Frederick G. Carnochan '13 on a recent trip to East Africa...