Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are three things which we poor men have the opportunity of varying in our otherwise modest style of outfitting. They are our shirts, neckwear, and socks. And with the New Deal strongly entrenched for another four years, we look for new trends in these articles of sartorial relief, and find them in prospect this season in new patterns, tones and styles which please the eye of the wearer and the beholder...
...attendants. Only one attendant could be found, so Casadesus had to help him push back Piano No. 1, bring forward No. 2. While they were straining with No. 1, a leg fell off. Half hysterical, the pianist put it back on. He was about to sit down at the relief piano when an unidentified clergyman seized the opportunity to stride onto the stage, make an impromptu appeal for United Charities. Stunned, the audience let him speak for a few minutes, then booed, hissed, whistled him off the stage...
Pianist Casadesus grimly returned. The audience roared with applause. He sat down, tore through Chopin and Ravel, wrestled till the last encore with the relief piano, which, propped up on a roller frame, struggled to roll out of his reach. Local critics were sure that St. Louis would never forget Casadesus, that Casadesus would never forget St. Louis...
...cast the justices into shadowy gloom. Last week the red curtains, side and rear, were swathed in white, and only in the front half of the chamber were inverted ceiling lights switched on. Thus the audience was thrown into shadow, the black-robed old actors into brilliant relief...
...Spain's President Manuel Azaña was able cheerfully to boast last week: "The whole of Catalonia is concentrating on efforts to fight for the Republic!" That this was no idle bombast was evident when 6,000 Catalonians under debonair Anarchist Buenaventura Durruti marched to the relief of Madrid. Also fighting with the beleaguered Red militia, who for the first time were reported using poison gas, was a stalwart pro-Red column of volunteers, made up of Russians, Italians, French, Germans and Poles. From among Madrid's refugee-swollen population of 1,500,000, there were last...