Word: halled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Straus Hall's Common Room will be open for the first time this year, and all Jubilee guests will be welcome there from 7:30 to 10 o'clock on Friday night for light refreshments...
Died. Edward Townsend Stotesbury, 89, head of the Philadelphia firm of Drexel & Co. and partner of J. P. Morgan & Co.; of a heart attack; in Whitemarsh Hall, Chestnut Hill, Pa. Financier Stotesbury, after serving as a drummer boy in the Civil War, went to work for the elder Drexel at a salary of $16.60 a month. Lowest estimate of his fortune at death...
...Mayor of Hell, Freddie Bartholomew's The Devil Is a Sissy, and the Pat O'Brien-Humphrey Bogart San Quentin. But what gives it a rich and salty flavor of its own is ingredients like the six young toughies from Dead End (Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Bernard Punsley, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell) and a dialogue script that is often spicier than Dead End's. That some day this gang would wind up in a tough cinema reformatory was entirely conceivable. That it would reform them as thoroughly as Crime School does is not so easy...
...Reform Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia began to break the 17-year rule of Tammany Hall over the city's public schools. One February day in 1935 he filled a vacancy on the Board of Education with a squarejawed, tousle-headed young man named James Marshall. His very first day Jimmy Marshall split not only with the Tammanyites but with his Fusion colleague, supported a bill to raise the compulsory school age to 18. Before the month was out he was known as the most uncompromising member of the Board of Education...
...orchestras with platoons of trumpets and battalions of violins. When he composed he often wrote for large combinations of instruments. One such work is his Requiem, which demands a tremendous orchestra and a large chorus, not to mention four brass bands distributed in the four corners of the concert hall. In the Requiem's orchestra are 16 kettledrums played by ten players. When Composer Berlioz' Requiem was first performed, one man in the audience fainted, and critics pronounced it the biggest noise ever heard in Paris...