Word: marvellous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building, but unique in its way. Never have more than 50 newshawks appeared at one of Mr. Farley's Press conferences, but when he invited the Press to last week's "house-warming" in his new private office, no less than 150 newsmen went to see and marvel. Twice as large as an ordinary living room, it was a study in green and brown. One whole wall was a bank of French windows facing on a sunny balcony. At opposite ends rose huge black marble fireplaces. Before one of them sat Mr. Farley, in a green leather armchair...
...Marvel to the U. S. has been San Francisco's operatic behavior all through Depression. Its seasons have been brief but even with expensive, imported singers they have usually paid for themselves. Two years ago the handsome municipal opera house was dedicated. Later Impresario Gaetano Merola stocked it with chorus and ballet schools, the only U. S. organizations of 'the kind outside New York...
...carry the burden: cox, Charles R. Cherington '35; stroke, William D. Locke '36; 7, David L. Marks 1L; 6, Richard C. Wells 1GB; 5, Andrew G. Webster, 2nd. '36; 4, C. Whitney Dall, Jr. '35; 3, George A. Matteson, Jr. '36; 2, Charles F. Tillinghast, Jr. '35; bow, Thomas Marvel...
Hemenway Gymnasium, built more than 50 years ago has become rapidly obsolete in the last few years and freshmen, entering the building for the first time when they take physical exams marvel at its antiquity. Pictures of Harvard strong men adorn the entrance hall and innumerable machines for producing gigantic biceps are scattered throughout the building , all in dreary and regular monotony...
...Metropolitan Opera House. Her last Metropolitan performance coincided last week with the conclusion of the Wagner Cycle (TIME, Feb. 12). The opera was Die Meistersinger and Eva who has always seemed a dull heroine suddenly bloomed forth as a charming young person, very much in love. Critics who marvel at the warm eloquence of Lotte Lehmann's singing, the contralto richness that holds to the high est notes, again complained because they had to wait so long to hear her at the Metropolitan. Chicago had her for a few performances in 1931 and 1932. From Vienna, Salzburg, Paris...