Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief objections raised to the theory were rising prices and wages with recovery and the burden of taxation. Defending the spending policy, Dr. Richard V. Gilbert '23, instructor in Economics, blasted the danger of increased taxation, holding it was more than compensated by increased income, and held that wages and prices could be controlled by a sufficiently flexible system...
...Richard V. Gilbert, instructor in Government, will head a group of five defending the increasing national debt. Professor Hansen leads the opposition...
Died. (Thomas) Gilbert White, 61, famed, long-maned U. S. expatriate muralist, brother of Novelist Stewart Edward White and Violinist Roderick White; after an intestinal operation; in Paris. Four years ago Henry Wallace tried to have one of Painter White's murals (once called "Ladies in Cheesecloth") removed from the Department of Agriculture Building, failed, thereupon attached to the bottom a small plate: "Approved in 1932 by Andrew W. Mellon and Arthur Hyde...
...Fast music increases metabolism and muscular energy, steps up the heartbeat, sends a rush of blood to the brain, elevates blood pressure. Slow, sentimental music produces opposite effects. Most stimulating are the swift tongue twisters of Gilbert & Sullivan. Most soothing: Kreisler's Old Refrain...
...musical satires* floored them completely. Stoop-shouldered, solemn Templeton would sit at the piano and reproduce the sound of a whole Wagnerian opera, pounding out brass chords, yodeling out-of-tune soprano arias and throaty German tenor recitatives. From Wagnerian opera he would turn to Italian opera, lieder singing, Gilbert & Sullivan, the bedlam inside a music conservatory. Last week Pianist Templeton brought his improvisations and caricatures to Carnegie Hall, where they formed the dessert of a program of more conventional piano music. Crotchety highbrow critics hemmed & hawed about his straight playing, but they had to admit that his mimicry...