Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Focus of all this celebration was a vigorous, severely dressed oldster, whose polished, monolithic head rose above an oversized collar. For many hours he stood patiently erect-with a curious bearing of rustic urbanity and retiring self assurance -receiving the congratulations of state officials, municipal leaders, foreign envoys and friends. At the concert all eyes were upon his rugged figure as he sat, with his small, dapper wife, between the President and the Field Marshal. Though urged, he declined to make a speech. Even when Finland's Premier, Dr. Kivimaki, addressing the great audience, presented him with a laurel...
Last Sunday evening, Pianist Hofmann, now 61, his grey hair encircling a bald spot, his gentle face still distinguished by the cleft chin of his youth, walked upon the Metropolitan stage and 4,000 applauding people rose to their feet. It was 50 years, less a day, since he had made his debut before the U. S. public. For this Golden Jubilee concert the 4,000 had bought out the house long ago, at $15 for the best seats, the proceeds (some $22,000) going to the Musicians Emergency Fund. In the audience were New York's Mayor LaGuardia...
...above war's sorrows soared Bomber Vittorio that he writes: "I remember that one group of horsemen gave me the impression of a budding rose as the bombs fell in their midst...
...week. Except in the Southwest Conference, where the season had another week to run before its champion could be determined, the major conferences were already hailing their heroes. In the Pacific Conference, California was undisputed champion with six victories and one tie (with Washington), assured of playing in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. In the Western Conference (Big Ten), Minnesota was champion with five victories and no ties or defeats but, having been beaten twice by non-conference opponents (Nebraska and Notre Dame) its season's slate was far from clean...
Spot wool prices last week stood at about 83? a Ib., way down from the $1.14 of January. Having piled up excessive inventories as prices rose, woolmen for the past year have been selling ardently, buying cautiously. Both prices and inventories are now down, but so is manufacture of wool goods (currently off about 25%) and therefore all wool buying has been on a hand-to-mouth basis for several months...