Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony, took a vacation. To pinch hit for Maestro Koussevitzky the orchestra's board of directors picked an obscure, lean, bald-headed Greek named Dimitri Mitropoulos. Boston's Brahmins, who thought all Greeks ran lunch wagons, had never heard of Conductor Mitropoulos. At the way he bounded to his place on the stage and went into action, they turned pale with alarm...
...emerald), took after her mother in an eccentric love of painting. She learned to draw accurately at the strict Slade School. She carried a little suitcase instead of a handbag "because," she told the supercilious young Marquess of Donegall, "the damned thing holds more, you fool." One day she ran off to France with Señor Alvaro Guevara, a charming Chilean painter whose portrait of Poetess Edith Sitwell hangs in the Tate Gallery. Tentative little paintings by Meraud Guevara began to. appear in the Paris Salon des Independants. That was ten years...
...lack of education. You see, some people have called me a literary stylist, but that's not al all true. My education was so meagre that when I started to write my column, I didn't have the faintest idea of how to spell the words I ran up against. Consequently, I just spell them the way they sound--herz d'ecuvres are just plain "aw-devres...
...Engineer Gustave Eiffel's "monster of the imagination," predicted that it would fall down. Alexandre Dumas, fils, called it a "horror." Because of "this torturing, inevitable nightmare," Guy de Maupassant fled the capital. M. Eiffel smiled, gave his personal fortune to finish the Tower, after Government funds ran out when it was one-fourth completed. The Tower attracted nearly two million cash customers in its first year, brought its builder wealth and made him an officer in the Legion of Honor...
Because he was annoyed by the noise of WPA pneumatic drills near his Kansas City house, Dr. Logan Clendening ran amuck, smashed with an ax the valve and feed pipe of the air compressor supplying the drills, was jailed (TIME, Feb. 20). Last week he pleaded guilty to charges of destroying property and disturbing the peace, was fined...