Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nobody ever fused words and music more effectively than Rodgers & Hart. When Rodgers' melodic line expresses gaiety, sadness, humor, Hart's lyrical line invariably complements and fulfills it. The lyrical slant may not be as sophisticated or clever as Cole Porter's. The melody may resort to chromatic tricks that such a perfect craftsman as Vincent Youmans would reject as unsound. But a Rodgers & Hart song usually has the power of a single musical expression, which not even such a pair of individual talents as P. G. Wodehouse & Jerome Kern could ever quite pull...
...industrial court, of last resort, to which the Minister of Labor may refer deadlocked cases if both sides consent. Its findings are not binding unless both sides agree to that in advance. It writes no opinions, for neither employers nor employes wish to build a body of industrial case...
Rightist Spain last week staged an exhibit of captured, foreign-manufactured guns, tanks and airplanes in the sumptuous Grand Kursaal Theatre of San Sebastian, Spain's beautiful Bay of Biscay summer resort. The exhibit showed brand-new, up-to-date arms, including a 1938 Russian anti-aircraft piece, Swedish anti-tank guns, warplanes of Russian and Czechoslovak manufacture...
Griped Newark's greying Mayor Ellenstein over the Little Flower's coup: "Without the first consideration for the lives of passengers and pilots, Mayor LaGuardia seems determined to resort to every stratagem to have New York designated as the official Eastern airway terminal...
Hero is strapping, serious-minded André Brelet, son of a bankrupt shipbuilder, who as a last resort takes a job as an Abbey guide. His wife Laura is the spoiled daughter of a bankrupt millowner, sullen, snobbish, shallow, a shrewish jade from her blonde head to her painted toes...