Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peaked caps of the People's Army drill with rifles in Alba's park. A militiaman who insists on always wearing his peaked cap, even indoors, regularly uses Alba's electric waxer to keep the parquet floors of his Madrid palace gleaming. Communist guides lead groups of peasants and proletarians about in the stately halls, lecturing as in the palaces at Leningrad and Moscow. Alba is a blood kinsman of Winston Churchill, discharges the duties of an ambassador in London, where both he and onetime King Alfonso XIII are objects of sympathy, occasionally get a friendly English...
...Chase (H. R. Sokal Film) soars over broad slopes and frowning crags in the Austrian Tyrol with shiny-nosed Leni Riefenstahl and world-famed Skimeister Hannes Schneider in the lead. Last week "non-Aryan" Skimeister Schneider was under Nazi lock & key in his native Austria. Fräulein Riefenstahl, last spring supposed to have been replaced in Hitler favor by Cinemactress Pola Negri (TIME, June 21), was meanwhile considered reestablished in her Fü:hrer's platonic affections...
Last week Arnaud Marts consented to be Bucknell's president-for weekends. He will spend half the week in his Manhattan offices, each Wednesday night will entrain for Lewisburg to lead Bucknell for the rest of the week...
LAND WITHOUT MOSES-Charles Curtis Munz-Harper ($2.50). As savage as Erskine Caldwell's, and more comprehensive, this picture of Southern sharecroppers, by a Texas newspaperman, gives the South a clear lead in producing its own severest critics...
...large orchestra. But not every orchestral composition in three or four movements is a symphony. Nearly any composer can string a few movements together like the acts in a vaudeville show. But a real symphonist must build his movements like the acts of a drama, make each one lead to the next, bring down his final curtain on an impressive climax. The great symphonists of any generation can be counted on the fingers of one hand...