Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next Shot. Where the House left off, the Senate prepared to begin. Chairman Adams of the Senate subcommittee in charge of the bill said that he thought the appropriation might be cut as low as $600,000,000. A dozen Senators were eager to cram the bill with amendments against politics in relief. While they were questioning Harry Hopkins about his fitness to be Secretary of Commerce, they got him to admit that if he had to do it again, he would not have made political speeches as head of WPA; that politics-playing WPA supervisors in Kentucky should have...
Their mixed audience of high and low brows heard the performance with mixed emotions, frowned at Bartók's obscure modernisms, guffawed at Goodman's cackling clarinet, but applauded like fans at a cockfight. Soberer pundits grumbled that Bartók's score was a tricky jumble of Stravinskian boisterousness, sniffed that they preferred Szigeti's superb performances of Beethoven's A Minor Sonata and Bach's unaccompanied Chaconne...
...Exhibited at the Downtown Gallery was Making Music by Bernard Karfiol: two boys playing an accordion and a guitar in the luminous corner of an old, low, New England room with Colonial Primitive portraits on the wall behind them. Notable was the skill with which the painter made his own music of warm colors, cool light, suspended pattern...
...prefer," says Sassoon, at 52, "to remember my own gladness and good luck, and to forget, whenever I can, those moods and minor events which made me low-spirited and unresponsive." His happy memories are really a tribute to the optimistic spirit of upper-class Englishmen's pre-War world. That spirit Siegfried Sassoon conveys exactly. Defending it, The Old Century is his testament that the worst that can happen in peace is idyllic compared to the best that can happen...
...Leporello disappears. Doña Ana suspects him of having invented the whole story. Sure enough, first Leporello, then Juan himself reappears. It seems that Juan had merely had a bad case of nettle rash, which marred his handsome face, so he had wanted to lie low for a few days...