Word: lombards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Abroad the reaction was less favorable. In England, .Lombard Streeters referred to the plan as "a damp squib." Sir Walter Layton, Bank of England's representative on the Wiggin Committee, said it was "controlled inflation." In Paris the criticism was sharper, the eventual reaction on the Bourse violent. The third bank failure in Paris in ten days was announced, that of Banque Syndicale...
Stroke, R. R. White '32; 7, J. A. Luetkmeyer '33; 6, John Wiggins '33; 5, Harper Woodward '31; 4, G. F. F. Lombard '33; 3, Alexander Lincoln, Jr. '33; 2, D. L. Charlton '31; Bow, C. C. Perry...
...Pops the Devil (Paramount). Novel-writing is a career which the cinema often shows accompanied by domestic disagreements. It takes effect as an irritant in this one after Steve Merrick (Norman Foster) has given up his job to produce a book while his wife (Carole Lombard) supports him by acting in a revue. Painful results: Anne Merrick is pursued by a publisher, Steve Merrick makes expensive gestures toward a pretty neighbor. Pregnancy is presently established as a motive for reunion. What makes Up Pops the Devil as amusing in film as it was recently on the Manhattan stage is expert...
...goes up against two unbeaten crews in Cornell and Syracuse, and in Cornell is found the general choice to retain unbeaten laurels. Syracuse, forced by the sudden collapse of stroke Millon Weiler to make its erstwhile-University the Jayvee boat and to elevate the heavier but slower Tom Lombard shell to the first ranks, has lost ground in the pre-race expectations, while Tech, greatly improved, is taken into altogether too little consideration...
...machinations by which Rodelinda, the Lombard Queen, rid herself of imposters and became reunited with Bertaric, the rightful king, were by no means the most important aspect of the performance. Handel's plot is blatantly conventional, works its way out leisurely. The imported soloists, headed by Soprano Mabel Garrison, and the choristers from Smith and nearby Amherst wore conventional wigs and furbelows. It was Handel's clear, direct music and the finish with which it was given that won Rodelinda highest praise yet for a Smith premiere from the metropolitan critics. The orchestra, composed mostly of Smith girls...