Word: performance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amateur. She and her friends, she told newshawks last week, are trying "to make music a part of life again, the way it used to be in past centuries. But we've had to be secretive about it. The way things are, it seems a bit silly. . . ." To perform together privately every fortnight will meet Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. William Vincent Astor (pianists), Mrs. Leland Harrison (wife of the Tariff Commission's international relations division head), Mrs. Arthur Woods (wife of the resigned Director of President Hoover's Unemployment Relief) and Mrs. L. Havemeyer Butt (singers). Asked...
...Federal Government is not equipped to serve as a guardian to the delinquent child. Nor should it assume this task. Whenever a child has broken a Federal law, his local community has failed in its responsibility. This duty is local, not national. The community has facilities with which to perform it. The nation has not. It is desirable from every point of view that the Federal Government be empowered to withdraw from the prosecution of juveniles where such withdrawals will be in the public interest and to leave the treatment of their cases to the juvenile courts or other welfare...
...assistants urged me to perform the experiment and I did so. I shattered atoms again and again. But no appreciable energy was released...
...play it, and il Fascismo once became so irritated as to threaten him with its famed, ugly castor oil cure. It was no new experience for him when Leandro Arpinati. Under Secretary of the Interior, and Boss of Bologna, requested that before the Bologna concert last month he perform the Fascist tune and the ''Marcia Reale" (royal march of the house of Savoy). Though Conductor Toscanini suspected no trap, he stoutly refused. Boss Arpinati suggested that the Bologna town band be permitted to play the pieces. "Impossible !" cried the maestro. It was an evening in memory...
...with snappy ads for religion, and the Garden of Eden dance hall. Of the two, the Garden of Eden was slightly more offensive to the Catholic priest. Father Malachy, meeting the Anglican parson on the street and becoming involved in theological argument, became so annoyed that he promised to perform a miracle: he would cause the Garden of Eden to be transported wherever the Anglican parson wished, at precisely 11:30 the following night. Next evening they met; the parson chose Bass Rock, a little island some 20 miles away; Father Malachy prayed; the deed was done...