Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days after the Garden meeting less than half of the city's 8,747 Republican committeemen convened in Mecca Temple, nominated a sag-jowled, 71-year-old Brooklyn realtor named Lewis Humphrey Pounds. In 1924 Mr. Pounds had been elected State Treasurer after he had been awakened from a sound sleep and told he was being run for office. He dislikes nothing so much as vaudeville jokes at Brooklyn's expense. A sacrifice offering to Tammany, he took the Republican nomination only after it had been rejected by better known G. O. Partisans who saw no reason...
Last week President Charles Humphrey Hamill of the Orchestral Association reassured those worried about the future of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, endangered last spring by the bickerings be tween its backers and the Chicago Federation of Musicians. The season will open Oct. 14, with Chicago's beloved Frederick August Stock on the podium once more...
...thermoelectric sextant, using infra-red rays, invented by Paul Humphrey Macneil. The infra-red rays are in the long-wave end of the electromagnetic spectrum. They are really heat waves, capable of penetrating clouds. The Macneil Sextant has a curved reflector that collects and potently focuses infra-red rays on a thermocouple, two pieces of metal which when heated even one-millionth of 1° give off a tiny flow of electricity. This flow is enormously amplified, measured by a galvanometer. When the curved reflector is pointed directly at the sun, the flow of electricity is greatest and the navigator...
...ballet. It may be that my jump into Niagara Falls will sufficiently disturb you and others to set back the self-inflated modernists. A greater charlatan article in Plain Dealer of Sept. 13, 1931, I have never seen. . . .* This will kill me. . . . The time will come when [Doris Humphrey's statements] will be recollected with bitter shame. . . . Now Ruth St. Denis is dreaming about a religious dance and does not see that the classical ballad dance is the most fine, elevated, and is the most close to the hopes of Heaven...
...article announced a new modern dance department in the Cleveland Institute of Music, under the direction of Modernists Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. Recommended to housewives, stenographers et al., it advertised that long, hard work and a musical background are not necessary; "all you need is a body...