Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metropolitan listeners fear that another opera was about to be given in English which they could not understand. Soprano Pearl Besuner, made up as a haggish black woman, was almost unintelligible as she informed Smithers, Jones's cockney factotum, that the natives had rebelled, gathered on a distant hill to hatch Jones's death. Tenor Marek Windheim's cockney accent only added to the confusion. But then Baritone Lawrence Tibbett swaggered on the stage...
...color of his voice, he boasted about how he had fooled the natives, telling them that only a silver bullet could kill him. He boasted about his record back in the States where he had killed two men. broken jail. Then Smithers told him about the savages on the hill. They were molding with voodoo rites a special silver bullet. The far-away sound of tom-toms told Jones his game was up. With a panama hat on the back of his head, Emperor Jones Tibbett, whistling "Swanee River." abandoned his palace, started into the dark Caribbean jungle designed...
...keep a clear record the Junior Varsity hockey team will meet the Northeastern Varsity in the Boston Garden at 2.30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Harvard had an easy time with the Belmont Hill team in its opener, bringing in an 8-0 win. Northeastern has played only one game, with Framingham High School which it tied by the score...
Virgil Jordan, economist of McGraw-Hill Publishing Co,, became president of the National Industrial Conference Board, fact-finding agency, of which he was research director 1920-29. He succeeds the late Engineer Magnus Washington Alexander. Virgil Jordan sometimes writes under the name Homer Hudson...
...Four authorities on this subject will conduct this course, each lecturing on his particular field. Captain A. W. Stevens will spend two weeks discussing the general principles of the subject. Following that, three other members of the United States Army Air Corps, Captain D. M Reeves, Captain B. C. Hill, and Lieutenant J. F. Phillips, will each have three weeks to explain the different phases of Aerial Photography in detail...