Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acid Upstart. Sime Silverman was fired from the old New York Morning Telegraph for panning a theatrical act that had bought an ad. He borrowed $1,500 from his father-in-law to push into the clamorous crowd of stage-door journalism. His maiden editorial in 1905 carried an acid promise: to print the news "without regard to whose name is mentioned, or the advertising columns...
Into his memoirs Author Murray has packed practically everything he knows or has ever heard. There are humorous dozens of cracker-barrel stories. There are shrewd estimates of hundreds of obscure people, cowhands, politicians, maiden aunts, Indians, legalites, buffalo hunters, dirt farmers. There is a bloated recapitulation of human knowledge (all set down as revelation), from casual botanical observations ("a three-leaf plant, like the poison Oak, is usually poisonous [but] a five-leaf plant like ... the Virginia Creeper is never poisonous") to startling historical discoveries (Egypt's "pyramids were constructed in order to satisfy groups and blocks...
...Canned Food for overseas relief, which is on behalf of UNRRA, encourages local groups and organizations to conduct collections of canned food. For information on organizing such a collection or where to ship contributions of food, interested groups should write to The Victory Collection of Canned Food, 100 Maiden Lane, New York...
Fighting Mood. All the Scotch in the world would not wash away the probability that UNO was heading into a rough maiden voyage. The original intention was to confine the first meeting to first matters like establishing the Security Council and electing a Secretary-General. But the world was too full of controversy to keep the agenda antiseptic...
...heading toward more simple treatment of harmonies and melodies." Of The Four Temperaments, Hindemith said: "I wrote it for Balanchine, but he never danced it. I don't know why." Die junge Magd, third of Hindemith's four, is a song cycle about a young maiden's life. Says the composer: "I suppose she dies in the end. Nobody knows." The fourth, Nobilis-sima Visione, was known as St. Francis when Massine danced it. "I never go to see the performances," Hindemith added. "I saw Nobilissima once because I had to conduct it." In less melodic days...