Word: heart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fight last week because a dauntless little man with a brown mustache had come forward to champion him and thousands upon thousands of reputable New York businessmen who had been similarly terrorized and mulcted. The new champion was Thomas Edmund Dewey, 34, for 18 months the head and heart of New York City's famed Dewey racket investigation. Tweed to Walker, Ever since the State Legislature in 1853 stripped police-appointing powers from the city's Common Council (called "The Forty Thieves") and set up a Board of Police Commissioners, the history of New York City has been...
...first month on the British Throne, King George VI last week continued to gladden his Government's heart by being as little like his abdicated brother and as much like his father as he possibly could. He had shown himself tractable by preferring the solid virtues of rural Sandringham to the glitter of London night clubs. He had reopened the Royal racing stables along the lines on which George V ran them. He was riding in sombre Daimlers and Lanchesters and not in slick American cars. He had even changed his policy about yacht racing to meet popular demands...
...would do with their Philharmonic, found him as objective a conductor as he is composer. Leading off with a little-known Weber overture, he made its Chinese theme sound clear and precise. Stravinsky has always sneered at "interpretation." His complete lack of it froze many a listener's heart. He conducted with the sharp, exact beat of a metronome, like that instrument seemed indifferent to the gallery...
Died. Robert David Carey, 58, Wyoming's ranching First Citizen, Republican Governor (1919-23) & Senator (1930-37), son of its late pioneer Senator Joseph Maull Carey; of heart disease; in Cheyenne...
...this week. The play is a broad adaptation of a script by the Viennese Paul Vulpius, and is staged here by Arthur Ritchie. Its boisterous title indicates the whole tone of the play, for it is a farce-comedy of bluff characters, headlong plot and broad burlesque. Even the heart interest is handled in this way: first the here doesn't want to kiss the heroine, and then he does...