Word: peering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Procession of the Sardar from the "Caucasian Sketches" Ippelitov-Ivanov *Overture to "Mignon" Thomas *Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" Debussy *Fifth Hungarian Dance Brahms *Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1 Grieg Morning Mood-Anitra's Dance-In the Hall of the Troll King *Londonderry Air Arranged by Sir Hamilton Harty *Finale (Allegro con fuoco), Fourth Symphony Tchaikovsky *The Chocolate Soldier, Selection Oscar Strauss *The Old Refrain Kreisler *March, "Indigo" from "1001 Nights" Johann Strauss *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Musle Store, Harvard Square...
...private life Lady Peel, Canadian-born widow of a British peer, Actress Lillie is, at 40, the brittle darling of the English-speaking stage for her merciless take-offs of less sophisticated darlings. Her first appearance on the screen, in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayers silent Exit Smiling (1926) sent audiences unsmiling away. Four years later, her Fox talkie, Are You There?, brought no warmer response. The Lillie repertory in Doctor Rhythm contains a few skits theatre audiences have not seen. She still has lingual difficulty ordering two dozen double damask dinner napkins, she still galumphs airily through light opera lampoons...
...former Labor Peer Lord Ponsonby, who made his political career as a champion of the League of Nations, before that was a Court page to Queen Victoria and today is a Government supporter, appeared to echo the sentiments of most of Their Lordships when he keynoted: "Nobody in this country can have any enthusiasm for a war to aid Czechoslovakia...
...TIME, March 14). So last week the three TVA directors appeared in Washington for their long threatened showdown before Representatives, Senators, Capital correspondents and the President of the U. S. By week's end the TVA family row, like the Great Boyg which oppressed Ibsen's hero Peer Gynt, was beginning to seem a tantalizing something at once too big to ignore and too shapeless to grasp...
...assumption that the TVA squabble was full of political dynamite. But Franklin Roosevelt in the past has seen plenty of such dynamite turn out to be a squib, and he knew the three TVA directors better than anyone else in Washington. And Franklin Roosevelt is a political showman without peer. Even so, Washington was hardly prepared for the kind of show he decided...