Word: hues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There followed a six-year interlude of trouble. Aging Major Higginson, disgusted with the hue & cry over innocent, crotchety Dr. Muck, turned the orchestra's management over to a board of directors, died a year later. Many of the orchestra's best players had been deported as "enemy aliens." In turn, two more acceptable but less capable French conductors, Henri Rabaud and Pierre Monteux, strove vainly to regain the lost ground. A strike, supported by the American Federation of Musicians, though won by the management, further depleted the orchestra's ranks. But by 1924 the Boston Symphony...
...novelist describe a hurricane at sea and straightway critics raise a hue because his hurricane is a pale imitation of the one Joseph Conrad described 35 years ago in Typhoon. The difference is put down to Conrad's superior literary talents. Actually, hurricanes were fiercer in Conrad's day; that is to say, sailing ships ran into more of them. Modern steamers, tipped off by radio, usually steer clear of them-no difficult matter, since hurricanes travel across open sea at no more than 15 m.p.h.* Richard Hughes, author of A High Wind in Jamaica (originally published...
...application to lapse. For Harry Bridges, this was a serious mistake. By the time he made a third application in 1936-two years after San Francisco's bloody General Strike-Secretary Perkins was besieged with requests to deport Australian Bridges as an undesirable alien. This year the hue has been raised still louder by Congressman Martin Dies's Committee on UnAmerican Activities, whose chairman claims that Bridges is a Communist. Secretary Perkins says she is awaiting a Supreme Court ruling on whether Communism provides ground for deportation.* With impatient Chairman Dies even threatening to impeach her unless...
While other Senators joined the hue & cry. Majority Leader Barkley got in touch with Harry Hopkins. That very day the campaign manager of Governor "Happy" Chandler of Kentucky (a candidate this year for Barkley's Senate seat) had published a letter to President Roosevelt in which he charged, with affidavits to match, that WPA jobs in Kentucky were only for Barkley voters. Said Mr. Barkley, specially anxious to quell the storm of poll-priming indignation...
Some of those views: "The surface of small coiled intestines . . . normally . . . appear with a slightly brownish hue, and peristaltic [movement] waves can be noted. ... A small liver with a wrinkled surface and hobnailed irregularities would suggest cirrhosis. Adhesions . . . may be spider web, lacelike, or massive bands. ... When the stomach wall is transilluminated, the stomach appears to observers like a Chinese lantern...