Word: gist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dazzling Bach orchestrations, the electrified excerpts from Wagner's Gotterdammerung. But Boston more than made up for Hartford's apathy. In Hartford Stokowski played a Bach encore "because you seem to love Bach so." In Boston he played four encores because Bostonians clamored for them. Gist of Stokowski's speech in Boston was his admiration for Boston's Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony "from which I learned so much when I first came to the United States...
...Majesty's Government suddenly seemed to lose interest in the White Paper which it had taken the lead in negotiating. This lightning change occurred after Adolf Hitler sent to London by his special Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop last week a six-page reply to the White Paper, the gist of which was that Germany rejected its terms in toto and that the Great Powers must mark time until the Realmleader should send them his proposals for what is to be done about Germany's rupture of treaties. Ambassador von Ribbentrop explained that Der Fuhrer was so busy winning...
...gist of the report by Sir John Maffey & experts was that absolutely no occasion would exist for filling the Mediterranean with British forces, even in the event of successful conquest by Italy of Ethiopia. In the dry and dispassionate words of Sir John Maffey & Experts: "From the viewpoint of imperial defense an independent Ethiopia is preferable to an Italian Ethiopia but the threat to British interests seems very remote and would become real only in the event of war between Britain and Italy, which is an eventuality that presently seems very improbable...
...extra column, was advertised a cure-all for the world's ills. At the top of one column appeared a photograph of the nostrum's author, Anatole de la Marti. After plowing through a column or two. most readers were too dazed to proceed. But the gist of M. de la Marti's plan was to establish a "World Record Service . . . for carrying out competitions in all fields of economic activity, with new and hitherto unknown stimulus, and with large cash prizes. . . . The journal or official organ will be the central supporting beam for the success...
...annoyance the new Foreign Secretary wrote a reply referring the Egyptians to the speech on Egypt of his predecessor as Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, which so inflamed Egyptian passions that turbulence in Cairo has been rising ever since. The speech contained some appeasing phrases, but its gist was that the British Government are set like flint against the aspirations of Egyptian Nationalism. After Mr. Eden's message to Cairo last week, rioting increased to such an extent that it got out of the control of the British Chief of Egyptian Police, and required for the first time...