Word: sa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sa-muel," the coach said, "you gotta be ready, Willin, and Yeager to go, for Harvard's got some Stella performers who can Burnett up and Downs the Field. You'll be Bailey able to move if ya don't get better, Little by Little...
...soon evident that the political pot was boiling. After a two-hour conference Lord Runciman's chief aide, Mr. Frank Trelawny Arthur Ashton-Gwatkin flew to London to confer with Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax. He was sa: to have reported: 1) that Führer Henlin was virtually a "straw man," repeatedly refusing to commit himself and saying he must first consult Berlin; 2) that unless Britain again issued a firm warning to Germany, Lord Runciman might not be able to keep the situation in hand. In Central Europe, chancelleries buzzed with a story that German Field Marshall Hermann...
...last week almost forgotten its existence. Of the 218 signatures he needed to get the measure to the floor, Representative Ludlow has had 200 or so for several months. Mr. Ludlow found, in the congressional reaction to the Panay sinking, a chance to get the dozen or sa additional signatures he needed and the bill was scheduled for six hours of debate on January...
Deep in the jungle, Bring 'Em Back Blynn discovers the bird-girl warbling away in the midst of an enthusiastic chorus of birds. Any opera scout but one named Lucius B. Blynn would have recognized the tune as Saint-Saëns' Nightingale song. Caught in a bamboo cage, she is taken to the U. S., twittering bird notes to a feathered crony named Ewyscray, venturing Gallic asides to Press-agent Jack Oakie. Before the ensuing complications are ironed out, the bird-girl trains her upper-register fluidity on the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor...
...Rain deferred the opening of the Detroit Symphony's free concerts on Belle Isle. When the series finally began last week the temperature fell to nearly a record low for July. Nevertheless, 1,500 people stayed for a concert of Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns, Leoncavallo, Lehar. Because donors had provided about $35,000, Manager Murray Gordon Paterson was able to promise a full six-week season, running every night but Monday. Hungarian Victor Kolar, associated with the Detroit Symphony since 1919, was newly back from Europe and planned to conduct the whole series. At a later concert...