Word: outer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more widely heralded piece of music was broadcast by the NBC Symphony under Conductor Artur Rodzinski: Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Composer of the famed opera Lady Macbeth of Mzensk and onetime white-haired boy of Soviet music, Shostakovich had lain for two years in official outer darkness, his opera banned and his Fourth Symphony confiscated because of "Leftist" modernistic tendencies (TIME, April 4). First of his works to be O. K.'d by Moscow critics since his downfall, the Fifth Symphony was supposed to indicate the new Soviet trend toward babbling-brook romanticism...
...reproduction" of the Currier & Ives skating print; the appearances of Toronto's Louise Bertram & Stewart Reburn (the Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers of skating), of Comedian Eric Wait with his absurd walking stunt, of 83-year-old Skater Oscar L. Richard, who can still cut a Grade A outer edge...
...east-west lifeline of central China, the Lunghai Railway defended by the so-called "Chinese Hindenburg Line." The Lunghai Railway connects (via the Peking-Hankow line) Chiang Kai-shek's capital at Hankow with Sian, capital of Communist-held Shensi and source of Soviet supplies coming in from Outer Mongolia. The Japanese force cut this link at Szeshui last week, but made no further advance after crossing the river. Chinese were reported to have blown up dikes along the Yellow River, flooding the countryside and thus blocking Japanese mechanized forces...
...Eastern state which is dominated by Soviet Russia, though nominally a part of China, is (1 Hopei, 2 Shensi, 3 Shansi, 4 Afghanistan, 5 Outer Mongolia...
...usual lid-off verve, like a hotcha stenographer at a house party, and skates a little bit. Ameche and Romero spark like worn-out cigaret lighters. A swing quintet, headed by Raymond Scott, tears into something called the War Dance of the Wooden Indians. And Sonja, hovering on the outer edge, looks on with bland, pudgy good nature, putting in a word here & there in excellent parrot English, and probably wondering, in Norwegian, what to do until the ice freezes again...