Word: kept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several uniformed war veterans walked out in disgust during the speech. Said the American Legion's Pennsylvania Commander Frank E. Gwynn afterwards: "This man . . . mistakes freedom for license. . . . The Moseleys most certainly must be kept from poisoning the minds of America's youth, from organizing the army which Moseley advocated for the overthrow of the Government...
From then on, reported Ambassador Bowers, the Rebels' problem was not how to keep him in jail but how to keep him out. He was given the freedom of Salamanca, but kept getting into trouble because of red wine rather than Red ideology. The city just could not get rid of him. Once, just before he was to be exchanged back to the Loyalists, he announced publicly: "I don't give a damn about a cause. I'm fighting for money." The Loyalists took someone else. And ever since, Harold E. Dahl has been Peck...
...conductor resigns, and a bantamweight takes his place, the orchestra is apt to sulk. In the past few years two of the finest U. S. symphony orchestras have had this letdown: Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony (Toscanini to Barbirolli); the Philadelphia Orchestra (Stokowski to Eugene Ormandy). The Philharmonikers have kept a stiff upper lip, but the Philadelphians, after brooding and glooming for a whole season, last week broke out in a williwaw...
...been in the Auditions of the Air sweepstakes since the first, in 1935. Failing that year, she took a job with the Chautauqua (N. Y.) Opera Company, in the 1936-37 competition tried and failed again. That summer she sang with the St. Louis Municipal Opera. Last season appendicitis kept her out. This season she sang in two Broadway flops, felt that her experience had been rounded out, tried again. Successful, she expects to start with roles like Musetta, Micaela, is confident she can make her $1,000 prize money go a long way because "I am rather a frugal...
When Hitler enters a fallen province or city, or appears anywhere in public, Photographic Reporter Hoffmann rides in the car behind him. Armed with a Leica camera, Bildberichterstatter Hoffmann darts back & forth in front of the Führer unmolested, while other photographers are kept at a respectful distance. The world's news agencies clamor for Heinrich Hoffmann's pictures, for he is the man who picks the photographers to cover everything the Aggrandizer does, and for the best jobs he picks himself...