Word: mucked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Antonia Brico is a conductor who, like helter-skelter Ethel Leginska, affects a jacket which resembles an old-fashioned Prince Albert.* She grew up in Oakland, Calif., studied for five years with Karl Muck in Germany. She has conducted successfully in Berlin, Hamburg, Manhattan. Women proclaim her a genius. Men say that she is an excellent musician who has a clean, sure beat...
...small-town chemist-electrician named James A. Boze, trudging through the muck of French battlefields, concluded, like many another before him, that the almost constant rains were caused by the incessant explosion of heavy artillery shells. This summer's drought gave James A. Boze of Waxahachie, Tex. an idea. Obtaining damage waivers from the owners of some 27,000 parched acres south of Dallas, he hired a plane, flew over clouds, dropped high-explosive bombs into them. That day it rained in Waxahachie. Farmers thanked Nature, not Boze...
...this point probably four-fifths of the book remains and Bardamn's adventuring continues. There is no let-down at this point either in reading quality or in the amount of degradation and muck which M. Destouches' lascivious here continues to encounter. The story shifts to Africa, then to the United States; back to France; then finale in the shadow of a private insane asylum where Bardamn is director. American readers, perhaps, will be disappointed when "The Journey," which begins as if to be a French "All Quiet on the Western Front" develops into a sort of "Candido." Throughout...
...Nutt-Van Sweringen transactions were first discovered last year after Union Trust Co., which failed to reopen after the bank holiday, was taken over by liquidators. The State Senate had spent most of the summer raking over the muck left by Union's failure and the failure of another large Cleveland bank, Guardian Trust Co. But Cleveland businessmen raised their eyebrows skeptically over the rash of bank indictments that followed, including one against Guardian Trust's homely, church-loving President James Arthur House. They were ready to listen ast week to the explanations of Messrs. Mutt...
...Waupun's hospital when Inmate Thomas Votcas upset his night bucket attendants decided to "housebreak" him. One bound and sat on him while another seized his ears, bumped and rubbed his face in the muck. When his face was bleeding and thoroughly besmirched they tossed him on a cot and went away...