Word: halting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last act Sir Thomas wheeled on the chatterers to shout "Shut up," never missed a beat. Next night he shushed the coughers in the audience. The two performances left Londoners repentant but not Sir Thomas. Said he: "If it happens again I shall halt the orchestra, wait for silence and begin the overture all over again. And I will go on beginning it again until it is played through in silence...
...bald, moon-faced U. S. executive, who uses his office floor for a filing cabinet, brought debate on Britain's North Atlantic shipping bill in the House of Commons to a sudden halt one day last week. Patriotic members of Parliament wanted to know and know at once whether President Philip Albright Small Franklin of International Mercantile Marine was really going to block the Cunard-White Star merger (TIME...
...plugged up mill races, destroyed valuable timber. Their year's damage amounted to $20.000. With mathematics proving that, if nothing interfered, the State would have 1,976,080.000 beavers doing $2,623,040,000 worth of damage in 1950, Pennsylvania's Game Commission this year called a halt...
...White, photography; Tony Sarg, puppets; Russell Patterson, illustrating; Arthur Murray, ballroom dancing. Instructors from Heckscher Foundation gave lessons in clay modeling, crayon and charcoal drawing, woodworking, metalworking, painting. Chosen to demonstrate the art of knitting were five Ziegfeld chorus girls. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt was brought to an abrupt halt by the sight of World's Champion Joe Pasco turning a punching bag into a rat-ta-tat-tatting blur with his fists, head, elbows, feet. ''My goodness!" she remarked. "Isn't he rapid...
...only natural that an IDEA which has deeply stirred and permeated the German nation would not halt at the frontier posts of a country which for centuries was an integral part of the German Empire." Two weeks late, Germany replied to Austria's plaintive note citing specific examples of German-inspired Nazi outrages in Austria. With a cavalier sweep wholly unsatisfactory to Vienna, Berlin abruptly denied all charges. Into steep-roofed Innsbruck the mobilized, armed Heimwehr marched, practically seizing control of the city. It was rumored that they had been ordered to do so to forestall a Nazi Putsch...