Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mother of the British Labor Party and still its most potent mentor is that mighty group of British labor organizations whose Trade Union Congress met last week in storied Nottingham Town, onetime haunt of exemplary highwayman Robin Hood...
...foreign observers this demand seemed modest enough. The British Government has continually implied that it was maintaining India in tutelage only until she could be educated to Dominion-hood. But the British lion last week roared his amazement at St. Gandhi's "diabolically clever'' plan. If the Labor Government attempted to give India Dominion status it would fail with the next election, said English politicians. If it did not, Indians would not attend the September round table conference, another blow at the Laborites...
...recent years Mr. Sunday's vigor has diminished. He no longer exhorts as dramatically as in his heyday just after the War. Early last week he addressed the Miami Valley Chautauqua near Dayton, Ohio. Thence he hastened, past Winona Lake, to another of his homes in Hood River Valley...
Good Intentions (Fox). This preposterous fable about gunmen in silk hats is good entertainment, although the characters, including Edmund Lowe as the gunmau chief, are stencils. The story is the one about the society Robin Hood who falls in love with a nice girl and keeps appointments with her between bank robberies. Few will accept as verity the huge town mansion of the young and naif hoodlum, or his devoted butler, or the robbery of the bank whose president is kidnaped at church by gunmen dressed like ushers, or Lowe's stubborn march upstairs to death in a dark room...
Philadelphia. "An evening with one of the world's most noted symphony orchestras for 22 cents," was the sales-cry of backers of the Philadelphia Orchestra's first season of summer concerts nightly in shady Robin Hood Dell, Fairmount Park. For 24 concerts tickets sold at $5. Besides Conductor Leopold Stokowski and Assistant Conductor Alexander Smallens, guest maestros will include Karl Krueger (also at the Hollywood Bowl) and Josef Alexander Pasternack. Albert Coates and Willem van Hoogstraten will alternate as conductors between Philadelphia and Manhattan (see below). From Berlin will come Ernst Knoch, famed conductor of Wagnerian music...