Word: second
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were three reasons. Each act was clipped short, the curtain falling just before the audience had reached the climax of enjoyment. Second, the music was exuberant, explosive, punctuated by the hearty (not dainty) shrieks of pretty feminine performers. Lastly, there was a transcendent originality. Two years ago, even one year ago, this magic quality lingered on. Last week, however, it was seen to have finally evaporated, a fault all the more glaring because every number in the present program is new, in the sense of not having been shown before...
...second decree signed last week by Italy's short, bantamweight King, established the new supreme organ of state, the Fascist Grand Council (TIME, Oct. 1), by appointing 44 puissant Fascisti to sit as "the first two categories" of the Council. Il Duce was understood to be powerfully meditating on which Fascists he will tell His Majesty to appoint in the third category...
Born. To King Amanullah and Queen Thuraya of Afghanistan; at Kandahar, their second-biggest city, where the King was girding his forces to recapture Kabul, the Capital, from Bandit Bacha Sakao, a son (eighth child...
...brother Pierre with whom he conducts the international jewelry firm of Cartiers. Dangling a model of the Kohinoor, he said: "The great diamonds of the world are vanishing. There are only ten of the first class between 100 and 200 carats and no more than 250 of the second class between 50 and 100 carats. There are many, many more prospective purchasers than that...
...second time Capt. Fried had entered port a hero. Three years ago, when master of the President Roosevelt, he rescued 25 men from the foundering British tramp steamer Antinöe after three and one-half days of labor...