Word: halls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night of the last college meal before vacation only a scattered few were breaking bread in a House dining hall. There was a strange quietness about the room; the rustle of skirts and the clatter of silverware were the major sounds. Voices seemed hushed and shy. Because of the dearth of students many waitresses stood against the wall in idle talk. Spontaneously, above everything, there burst forth a song. In a moment all the girls were caroling to the diners. Applause rewarded this serenade; but that was not enough. As the remnants of the House were leaving, in a magnificent...
...impasse which has been reached in the negotiations between the University and its dining hall employees suggests that it would be a good idea to examine the cause of the difficulty...
Hurricane (Jon Hall, Dorothy Lamour, Mary Astor, Raymond Massey; TIME...
...college, indignant students quickly rounded up the band, paraded around the campus, were addressed at a rally by Dr. Ganong, who declared the college officials had given him no opportunity to defend himself. By dawn the 350 students had decided to strike. When Dean Sherwood Gates arrived at Bowen Hall he was turned back by pickets who barred the door to students and professors...
This week Manhattan music lovers gawped and gloated while more than $1,000,000 worth of Strads (violins, violas, cellos: 20 instruments in all) were played at a single Carnegie Hall concert. Noted Violinist Efrem Zimbalist played on his famed Lamoureux (Strads, like Pullman cars, all have individual names). Listeners marveled at the mellow, homogeneous tone quality of the eight glistening, red-gold instruments played by the Musical Art Quartet and the Stradivarius .Quartet of New York, the small string orchestra over which senatorial Walter Damrosch waved a deliberate baton. The occasion for this Stradivarius display was the 200th anniversary...