Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inside those walls Arturo Toscanini was proving again his art, and allaying the fears of those who had heard the orchestra rehearse. A week prior it had been ragged, particularly in winds & strings. But the great master made the Brahms Second come out so clear and controlled. Schubert's Unfinished Symphony sing with such freshness that the audience could forget the flocks of frightened sparrows which swooped and twittered above their heads. There was no raggedness when, partly as a taunt to Nazi Germany, he led them through a scherzo by Jewish Felix Mendelssohn...
...dropped dead when the magic 799 came up last week. But a few days prior a numbers runner was murdered in Washington, and a Harlem numbers collector, who was a WPA worker on the side, was shot to death by another WPA worker for welching on a 6? bet which hit. This was a fairly routine budget of blood for the biggest, richest racket in the U. S. today...
...late great Earl of Birkenhead, "The Galloper," when Secretary of State for India prior to Joseph Stalin's break with Leon Trotsky (TIME, Oct. 10, 1927), once openly remarked with characteristic recklessness that British agents had been working for some years to undermine the position of Comrade Trotsky in Russia. "But, dash it all, they don't seem to be able to do anything...
...discover the quickest kind of ceremony. Lawyer Delson tracked down in the Domestic Relations Law a provision for contract marriage, which formerly could be under taken before a notary public but now requires the presence of a judge of a court of record. Mr. Delson could find only two prior instances of contract marriages, one for a Mr. Kelso and a Miss Bryant in 1917, the other for a man named Wickholm and his bride...
...Edward supplying all necessary dignity, the British Broadcasting Corp. found it possible to send out a "children's hour" message to the moppets of the Empire, a description in words of one and two syllables of the relations between Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson. Only a few days prior these had been so "scandalous" (because undignified) that they were supposed to be something which only a few nasty-minded British adults would stoop to read in the "American press...