Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gossin in the Square and around Police headquarters later in the day seemed to indicate that the bomb was too poorly constructed to be taken seriously. The potency of the explosives remains in doubt until the State experts make their report; one witness at the scene believed that it probably contained sand...
...observer of the changing business scene, I shall welcome into my home another index to supplement and affirm-or disaffirm-other series...
That was in 1772. Last week a similar scene took place in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, where Sergei Koussevitzky's famed Boston Symphony had announced a "concert extraordinaire." Manhattan concertgoers could see that something was up when 18th-Century ushers led them to their seats. When Boston's stiff-necked orchestra appeared in silk stockings and periwigs with Conductor Koussevitzky himself got up as Franz Joseph ("Papa") Haydn, they began to catch on. Without batting an eye, poker-faced Koussevitzky led his men through Haydn's rococo whimsey, bowed gravely, pinched out his candle and left...
...Partly using the plot of the old fairy tale, Babes in the Wood introduces Chamberlain-umbrella and all -as "The Wicked Uncle," Hitler and Mussolini as "The Robbers." A Cabinet meeting at No. 10 Downing Street takes place in a privy with No. 10 painted on the door. Another scene shows the Cliveden Set, led by Lady Astor, goose-stepping and giving the Nazi salute...
...gasp practically in Vag's face. A moment later, Vag and the school kids all tried to get out of the same exit at the same time. The youngsters and their brazen school girl dates--those feline hellions with their startling curves, who had hissed vengefully at the dagger scene and necked vigorously throughout the banquet scene--now had little regard for a rheumatic oldster like Vag. Push as he might, he got nowhere until suddenly on his left he found a stairway leading down. So down he went...