Word: revoltings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...left Oxford before he had finished. Aged 19, he toured England with the Kelson Truman Opera Company, wrote three operas himself. In a few years he turned to symphony work, presenting highly unorthodox programs which were marked with deep musical scholarship as well as youth's impetuous revolt. Calm, neat, leisurely, absentminded, he lavished ?100,000 ($486,000) on his first season of opera at the Afternoon Theatre, where he conducted the first English performances of Elektra and introduced English enthusiasts to Composers Strauss and Delius...
...biography of Washington. His pen has not the iconoclasm of Rupert Hughes, but it is equally scholarly. Mr. Hughes uses 494 pages to bring his hero to the age of 30; Mr. Woodward in 460 makes a brilliant sketch of Washington, flanked by the colonies in peace and in revolt, and many another bigwig of the Revolutionary...
Within the city a revolt was nearly launched last week by agitators in the pay of the Cantonese who were only checked when Major V. K. Ting of Shanghai discovered their plot and ordered cut the railway over which they expected to receive re-enforcements. These developments, adding to the fear of an immediate onslaught by Chang Kaishek, left foreigners and Chinese alike terror-stricken in Shanghai...
...Hugh S. ("Mail Order") Magill, independent Republican Dry, who is backed by Julius Rosenwald in "a revolt of good citizenship" against the two other "slush" candidates. In August, Mr. Rosenwald, head of the mail order house of Sears, Roebuck & Co., visited President Coolidge, is believed to have told him about the grimy political situation in Illinois. Mr. Rosenwald says that he, himself, is "a dub in politics" but that he is firmly convinced of the worthiness of Mr. Magill. Mr. Magill's name will be put on the November ballot as the result of a petition filed last week...
News came from Bucharest last week that the Soviet Russian radio stations at Moscow and Odessa are now broadcasting nightly criticisms of the Rumanian Government in Rumanian and appealing to Rumanian listeners-in to foment a revolt. Vexed, War Minister Mircescu has countered by ordering the Rumanian military radio station to send out "a terrific buzzing" whenever the Soviet Russian stations begin to broadcast...