Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoelderlin's poem, Der Main, is familiar to Cambridge audiences. Its direct, simple beauty has earned several performances here. The Violin and Piano Sonata in E has not been heard so frequently, and those who are acquainted with the earlier works in this form will be surprised at the light lyricism and simplicity of this short, melodious piece...
...prides of Hartford, Conn. is Hartford Electric Light Co., nationally known as a model utility. It has no truck with holding companies, has only common stock (few bonds), has constantly slashed its rates. Head of this white sheep of the utility industry has long been genial old Samuel Ferguson, who four years ago moved up to chairman, turned over the presidency to handsome, Danish-born Viggo E. Bird. Last week, to Hartford's openmouthed horror, Viggo Bird turned out to be an embezzler...
This was the closest scandal had ever come to Hartford Electric Light Co. and it went no further. Viggo Bird resigned at once and Samuel Ferguson resumed the presidency, announced that the embezzlement did not involve the utility but New London Northern R. R. Co., of which Viggo Bird was treasurer...
...returned to Paris two months ago), Elliot Paul wrote a novel, Concert Pitch, and spent much time studying U. S. labor. The result is The Stars and Stripes Forever. A strike novel laid in a one-man manufacturing town in Connecticut, it contains no Communist character, goes light on leftist propaganda. Conceit rather than the C.I.O. accounts for the fact that the villain, Tycoon Loring, finally gets the whole town down on him, including the high school football team. With its neat plot and smooth dialogue, The Stars and Stripes Forever is a sort of left wing Satevepost story...
...burdened. X-rays have been taken, yes, and chipped bones and bent bones and extraneous bones have been removed. But many of these men have little faith in science. Some back astrology, some herbs, and others pronounce definite cures by wrapping rabbits around their arms by the light of the three-quarters moon...