Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...change is probably not great enough to warrant the prediction, not an uncommon one now, that a period of romanticism will follow very shortly. It seems logical that a reaction should come after such a drastic trimming down of musical style as we saw in many composers after the War, but if the present classical sentiment persists, it should be enough in itself to hold within bounds a tendency toward the looseness and freedom of real romanticism...
...cause as a defense of American democracy. This, too, has yet to be conclusively shown; maybe British propaganda agents will be forced to prove it soon. But in any case, the basis of such a program for education here appears to be the old "one fact and a prejudice" saw...
Selfridge's in 1937 made a $4,000,000 profit on sales of some $65,000,000. Last year saw the profit more than halved. This September London's retail trade dropped 30% under 1938. People bought blankets, clothing, boots & shoes, blackout materials but not much else. Even J. Lyons & Co., Ltd. (teashops) in the West End felt the pinch, for the first time in years cut its dividend from...
...Major in St. Petersburg in 1843, bringing young Jimmie and Willie (aged 9 and 7) and Deborah, the Major's child by his first marriage. While Mrs. Whistler glowingly distributed Bible tracts to the Tsar's soldiers, who used them to stuff their boots, Major Whistler saw 30,000 serfs sweating twelve hours a day to make his embankments symmetrical, heard his haughty Russian friends warn against ever giving the serfs a decent meal lest it upset their stomachs. In the evenings the Major solaced himself by playing the flute (he had been "Pipes" at West Point...
Passers-by told Sheehan that they saw smoke coming out of an upstairs window in the house, and while he ran upstairs to investigate they turned in the alarm at the corner...