Word: lives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassador-Designate Davies regards these preparations he confided to friends in the dining room of Washington's Mayflower Hotel one day last week. "We are going to live in Moscow very quietly, very simply," said he. " 'When in Rome,' you know. . . . We'll have just the comforts one ordinarily has in America. We are taking our own staff of servants. But, you may say, we shall have a minimum menage...
...being maintained at latest reports. This enhanced the effectiveness of a general "smothering campaign" which was an excellent thing in some respects. If the Duke & Mrs. Simpson can be minimized, belittled and extinguished from English minds, the Duke and his problematical Duchess can soon come back to England and live more or less happily ever after. In preparing the docile minds of English newspaper readers for this, London's Sunday Referee printed very quietly indeed that "soon after the Coronation" next May the Duke will have returned to reside in Fort Belvedere, bringing with him "his wife." As though...
...strike out for himself as a soloist in England. France, Switzerland. Holland, Italy, Spain. Austria. In 1933 the German Government refused to let Serkin, a Jew, play at the Brahms Centennial in Ham burg (TIME, May 1, 1933). Violinist Busch, an Aryan, withdrew too, took the young pianist to live with him in Basle. Year and a half ago Serkin married Busch's young daughter Irene...
...Yorkers, who packed Madison Square Garden every night, watched last week they could have seen gratis on many a country hillside. Skiers shot off the slide in jumps about one-half as long as good outdoor jumps, gave demonstrations of rudimentary turns. Department store models tried and failed to live up to their skiing costumes. Fancy skaters whirled on the miniature rinks. In the steam-heated cellar below the snowdrifts, agents for innumerable winter resorts and ski-supply houses set up booths. Bug-eyed at these goings-on, spectators reserved special awe for the two items of the wintersports show...
...Schneider ski school, Skimeister Schneider has had as many as 3,000 pupils a year, 400 a day. The school has 25 assistant teachers. Fee for pupils is $5 a week, for four hours a day six days a week. The pupils live in hotels, assemble on a level field each morning, pass examinations in stemming and turning to pass from one class to the next. Having put St. Anton and Arlberg on the map, Hannes Schneider, son of a goat-herder, owns the biggest house in the village (13 rooms, two baths), which he built largely with...