Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite pastime of the employes at this pear station was to use the rat-kangaroo as a target while it sat motionless in the glare of a carbide light. It was not uncommon to kill several in an evening. The wallaby also suffers from this type of sport. A score in one evening was considered a goodly kill...
...Berlin 500 Fascist students, enraged by the closing of their university for two days in hopes of preventing riots there, swarmed down Unter den Linden roaring "Germany Awake!" and brandishing sticks and stilettos. The United Press, which has its office at No. 17 Unter den Linden, estimated that "a score of persons were beaten and one stabbed" before police dispersed the rioters...
...painter in Chicago, then an interior decorator in Manhattan, Decorator Deskey is credited with the introduction of tubular metal furniture to the U. S. He promised "sane modern design" for International Music Hall, to be used for vaudeville under Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel's direction.* Already a score of artists were planning details...
...west toward the land of unlimited resources. When Washington Duke began to make cigarets as well as smoking tobacco he gave as his reason: "My company is up against a stone wall. It can't compete with the Bull." Durham's bull was the object of a score of lawsuits before he became the property of American Tobacco Co. in 1898. As time passed the bull seemed to grow younger, more alert. He turned his head east again, became civilized, modest, stood behind a fence. Nine years ago he went into retirement, did not reappear until last summer...
Summer operagoers are informal, easygoing. For them there should be staple fare, easy to look at as well as listen to. All the better if the impresario can jumble onto his stage spear-carriers, dancing girls, supernumeraries by the score. If possible, let there be animals! Could there be camels in Carmen? Elephants in Pelleas et Melisande? Hardly. Of all operatic staples, Aïda does best outdoors. Consequently, Aïda's familiar tunes ring sweetly every summer in many a U. S. stadium. Biggest and most pompous ever was Cleveland's last summer, in which more...