Word: heaven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hospitals. The remaining ?36,000 he distributed as 748 "gifts" to certain ticket holders whom he vowed were not lottery winners. The biggest gift was ?2,000, the smallest ?10. Asked on what system he had selected the 748 beneficiaries, the Duke cheerfully replied, "It was an idea from Heaven...
...Toulouse, most potent French provincial newsorgan. Approvingly the Paris Press recalled that at the London Economic Conference, Delegate-Gourmet Albert Sarraut delivered a ringing speech in which he cried, "The world in this time of Depression is suffering from grave underconsumption of wine. . . . Ah wine: the gift from heaven of the blood of life which has been vouchsafed us in this vale of tears as compensation for our suffering! . . . Assuredly at such a time as this the world should drink more wine...
Deere Wiman, producer). If Johann Strauss was looking down last week from his waltz-heaven he was probably scandalized at the way little Helen Ford (Dearest Enemy) laced herself into a high old-fashioned corset, powdered herself suggestively and came forth to pipe his pet coloratura aria with comically fluttering eyelids and exaggerated soubrette wiggles. But these things supplied the few bright intervals in this latest of many versions of Die Fledermaus. The plot is the same old one : a rich, stuffy Viennese (Tenor George Meader), sentenced to a week in jail, first takes an evening off, goes...
...settled down to a hard week's round of lectures, conferences, clinics and surmises, which President Haggard's further rhapsody on Women lightened. Cried Dr. Haggard, who has lived in Nashville, Tenn. most of his 61 years:* "The Apollo Belvedere,'with its magnificent forehead calm as Heaven, rises above eyes that follow the shaft he has sped. 'And the cold marble leaped to life a god.' Contrast the Belvedere with the Venus de Milo, the very eidolon of the female form, the Queen of the Loves; the head too small for great intellect...
...announcement of the University that it considers the question of parking place closed leaves matters at an impasse, satisfying to no one but the garagemen. One thing, however, is clear: apparently Lehman Hall believes that it has a heaven sent duty to protect and further the avarice of Cambridge's leading profiteers, and it closes its eyes completely to the exorbitant prices which they charge. Consequently, at this time, the garage owners are still battening off the students, and stretching out grasping tentacles to encircle those who balk at such extortionist tactics...