Word: offs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another feature of the same Stokowski concert: Conductor Stokowski, who lately railed loudly and publicly against the "barbaric" practice of applause (TIME, Nov. 18), stepped off his dais when two of his violists distinguished themselves and happily, forgetfully, led the audience in palm-smacking.
Stock companies are often pitiful, struggling organizations. Their managers bear incalculable woes. One of these was voiced last week by George J. Houtain, counsel for the Theatrical Stock Managers Association. Declaring in a letter to the American Federation of Musicians that prohibitive union wages and regulations had made music scarce...
In Dallas, Tex., thieves broke into a wholesale undertaking establishment, made off with 100 shrouds which-they sold to a gentleman who in turn sold them, to girls as the latest mode in party dress.
While the Italian freighter Leonardo da Vinci with a cargo of Renaissance paintings was being tossed in a heavy storm last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 23), the steamship Manuka, carrying a $125,000 traveling exhibition of modern British art to New Zealand, crashed in the fog on the rocks off South...
When the Revolution came he was a big man. He corrected Thomas Jefferson's rhetorical Declaration of Independence, went to France as Commissioner, crowned his career by persuading France to recognize U.S. independence (March 20, 1778). In France he became the rage, his plain, shrewd honesty a cult. Turgot...