Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conductor Ernest Bloch came all the way from San Francisco to lead a picked handful of men with strings through Bach's steamy and impetuous "Brandenburg" concerto in G. Some of the temperament of this first performance extended, unhappily, into their execution of the next item, Mozart's lunar "Serenata Notturna," but was in place again for Mr. Bloch's own sombre, splendid composition, "Concerto Grosso...
Third Game. The lead story of St. Louis's only morning newspaper, the Globe-Democrat, was a supplication to the citizens of the city. ". . . Be good sports today . . . fair to the Yanks . . . not as unsportsmanlike as painted. . . ." Readers recalled that the vigorous instincts of St. Louis baseball rooters had caused pop bottles to be banished from the stands. The team, returning from Manhattan, was given a frenzied welcome. Rain fell at midnight. It was still falling in the afternoon. Standing on the pitcher's mound, the only dry spot on the field, Jesse Haines, a garage keeper from...
...this Rama Krishna was a strangely unromantic sort of person. He did not, as did Buddha, suddenly change his course of life from that of a prince to that of a begging friar. He did not lead armies, as did Mohammed. He did not confute wise men, nor die an eternal death upon the Cross, as did Christ. Instead he spent nearly his whole life tending the ritual of the Goddess Kali at her temple on the Ganges. Strangest thing of all for a Messiah, he deliberately avoided founding a cult. Instead he urged all who came...
...chatty memoirs of actors never fail to interest. People can always stop long enough to listen to gilded figure, usually seen only across footlights, unbending and telling the juicler details of the strange, luxuriously vagabonding existence that actors lead. This narrative of Mr. Barrymore's is, although not at all literary, among the best of the type; racy, gossippy, adequately frank and revealing...
...American culture--the college man--are again pointed out. Dean of Men, Goodnight, of the University of Wisconsin has recently made a passionate plea to fathers against this vile filcher of the young man's time and money. He is evidently of the impression that the paths of autos lead but to the roadhouse where w.ne flows freely and time is lightly slain. Goodnight points out significantly that a car enables a student of weak character to procure liquor more easily. Whether a student of strong character can procure his liquor easily without a car or can resist the steering...