Word: nextly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...composers, Darius Milhaud. But what held them in their seats and sent them home happy was the light, tripping music and witty text of a little musical farce called Amelia Goes to the Ball, by an unknown graduate of the Institute, a youngster of 25 named Gian-Carlo Menotti. Next year Amelia made the Metropolitan, was so successful that it became a permanent part of the Met's repertory...
...warm day last summer a New York World-Telegram rewrite man became slightly silly while reading a weather report, stuck a piece of paper in his typewriter and wrote: "Today is a nice day." This got into the paper, and next thing the Telegram's city room knew, people were calling up to offer congratulations. Since then the World-Telegram has run a gag story on the weather every two or three days, and they have become the big town's richest newspaper chuckle. Sample...
...disgusted with the custard softness of the Pulitzer awards for drama, Manhattan's play critics decided to make an annual award of their own. In the next three years they chose, as best U. S. play of the year, Maxwell Anderson's Winterset, Maxwell Anderson's High Tor, John Steinbeck's Of Mice...
...Robinson and his son Dr. Gerard Briscoe Robinson, a graduate of Yale Medical School) to continue their business of diagnosing and prescribing asthma medicine through the mail. Under the 1938 Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, this practice is illegal. To comply with the Act, which goes into effect next June, Robinson patients will have to come to Mount Gilead for treatment...
...instead of three, eventually went down 500 points instead of 300. Mr. Barnes protested that he had been misled, got a referee to award him 200 points. His team finished the match 120 points ahead. Thereupon began a series of protests and counterprotests that rocked the tournament and culminated next day in a conference of five of contract's highest authorities to decide the dispute. After an hour-and-a-half session, during which it was established that Mr. McPherran had erred in speaking but Mr. Barnes had no business believing him, the committee voted three...