Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mink" is notorious George Mink, alias Minkoff, who, according to the U. S. State Department, has a valid U. S. passport. He worked for Yellow Cab Co. in Philadelphia from 1928 until 1933. A Philadelphia cabby who had then known him said last week: "'The Mink' was a Red, all right! He was always startin' arguments, and they were so silly you'd get all burned up and lose your head. He hasn't got the brains of a flea! He won't kill nobody...
...When a trespassing dog grazed the wire last week, it got an electric shock, ran away yelping. Soon the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals heard about Mr. Burns's electric fence, asked for an injunction to compel him to remove it. Few days later the Philadelphia Electric Co. tested the fence, pronounced its amperage too low to harm dogs or children, and the S. P. C. A. called off the suit...
Among the familiar evidences of European foreboding, this quiet emigration of paintings to Philadelphia ranks as a minor but interesting portent. Both loans were arranged by the Pennsylvania Museum's young, socialite Assistant Curator Henry Plumer Mcllhenny. Young Mr. McIlhenny was tipped off to the nervousness of young M. Gangnat last summer...
BEETHOVEN: AH, PERFIDO! (Philadelphia Orchestra with Kirsten Flagstad; Eugene Ormandy conducting; Victor: 4 parts). Today's No. 1 operatic voice is more perfectly suited to Wagnerian declamation, but the recording engineers have done magnificently...
WAGNER: SIEGFRIED (Excerpts edited by Leopold Stokowski; Philadelphia Orchestra; Stokowski conducting; Victor: 5 parts). Typical Stokowski abridgement preserving a few of the opera's salient pages...