Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invited Scandinavia (among others) to pitch in and help defeat the Nazi-Bolshevik combination. British public opinion was last week discernibly dissatisfied with the present "defensive" course of the war and more voices than ever demanded action. Most forcible expression came from the onetime First Lord of the Admiralty, Leopold S. Amery, in a London speech...
...ether as unnecessary. In the relativistic view there is no such thing as absolute motion, therefore no need of a fixed frame of reference, such as the ether. It became fashionable for scientific popularizers to make fun of the ether as a ridiculous, shivering jelly. When Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld wrote their book for laymen on the evolution of physics (TIME, April 4, 1938), they whimsically treated the ether as an unprintable vulgarism...
While on the subject of classical, here are a couple of albums just released that are worth the attention of any record fan, classical or jazz. On the Victor label this month is "Nocturnes" by Claude Debussy recorded by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. It seems to me that anybody who wants to play good jazz should plan to include Debussy in his course of study...
...through every Belgian city, summoning officers and men from theatres, cafes, homes. Brussels had a partial blackout, something she never had during last autumn's scare. French-speaking residents of Eupen and Malmédy (ceded by Germany after World War I) were evacuated to the interior. King Leopold became active Commander in Chief of the Army...
...surprisingly, in his book, Quiz Champion Levant slips on many a fact. Sample boners: that Leopold Stokowski taught the New York Philharmonic-Symphony to play Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps in 1930 (famed German Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler had done it five years before); that Harpo Marx tunes his harp backwards (Harpo's tuning, though unorthodox, is not backwards); that Toscanini cannot see the men in his orchestra (Toscanini, farsighted, can see quite well beyond six feet...