Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sedate rumble of her four 1,100 h.p. engines change to a snarling roar as her pilot put her nose downhill through the overcast one day last week. From the clouds 10,000 feet above them she burst into view, fleet, round-bodied. A black speck burst from her left side, grew with incredible rapidity as it hurtled to the ground-an engine. Her sleek left wing swung back, twisted in the air and fell away as her engines alternately roared and growled...
...York, Florida, Massachusetts and Texas each wanted a taxable slice of the $36,000.000 kitty left when, nearly three years ago, Death came to peg-legged, pleasure-loving Colonel Edward Howland Robinson ("Ned") Green, son of that fabulous old miser, Hetty Green. Colonel Green, who liked to fly his own blimp, collect jigsaw puzzles, jiggle pocketfuls of diamonds, buy "anything that snapped," maintained residences at one time or another in all four States. Last week the U. S. Supreme Court settled the matter by deciding that $5,000,000 should go to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, because Colonel Green "spent...
...Music Project's pompous national director, Nikolai Sokoloff, went to Chicago to rehearse it for a concert under his own baton. When he heard it play he was afraid to be seen in public with it. Hastily recommending a new conductor and a shakeup in personnel, Director Sokoloff left town...
...behind the Illinois Symphony's sudden artistic and box-office success is no imported, caviar-fed maestro, but a pint-sized, 29-year-old Midwestern musician named Izler Solomon. When National Director Sokoloff left town in disgust three years ago, he left the job of reorganizing the orchestra in Solomon's hands. A shrewd young man, as well as a talented maestro, Conductor Solomon saw at a glance that his WPA outfit could never compete on the same grounds with the seasoned, long-established Chicago Symphony. So he and State Project Director Albert Goldberg planned something different. Leaving...
Parent of all the racquet games is court tennis, which Nausicaa and her maidens reputedly played by batting a ball with their hands. For the last 700 years it has been played with a lopsided, gut-strung racquet that looks as if it might have been left out in the rain. Once the game was a pastime of the European masses, but like other mass delights, it has become much too good for them. Since the 15th Century every British and French king worth mentioning has played it, moving one of its chroniclers to write: "It is the characteristic game...