Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston Pops Orchestra--Paul Cherkassy conducts among other items, some Strauss waltzes, a selection from "Oklahoma," the slow movement from Tscharkowsky's fifth symphony, and Bach's Air on the G-string. At Symphony Hall...
...doormen, its bigness, its gangs of savage street urchins, and the humid horror of its tropical summers. To Britain's Novelist J. B. Priestley, Broadway is "an angry carbuncle ... a thoroughfare in Hell where you take your choice between idiotic films . . . and shops crammed with schoolboy tricks." Jean-Paul Sartre, the high priest of France's Existentialism, spoke of "this desert of rock" and also complained that he had seen roaches galloping through the city's kitchens...
...wind chill," Claxton had learned, as much as the cold, that gets men down in the north. On a scale worked out by Dr. Paul Siple (Eagle Scout of the Byrd 1928 expedition), flesh freezes at a wind chill of 1,400. This may be at 20 above zero, if there is a 20-mile wind, or 40 below with a one-mile wind. Last winter, survivors told Claxton, Churchill's wind chill was greater than 1,400 most of the time, and once...
...thousands of Germans last week remembered the tricolors as the flag of Germany's first parliament, which had met in the Pauls-Kirche just 100 years ago. The Frankfurt Assembly had died young, succumbing to the "unity" of Berlin and Bismarck. Last week those who remembered those lost beginnings gathered at battered old St. Paul...
Foot & Mouth. In Ottawa, Parliamentary Law Clerk Paul M. Ollivier proposed that M.P.s be required to stand on one foot while speaking...