Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main street of the village, the back door of which was in Spanish territory, the front in French. The Spanish section of the town was temporarily made the fifth capital of Loyalist Spain. But not for long. When the triumphant Rebels pressed forward to the frontier (see p. 16), Premier
...week's end Mr. MacDonald shuttled to the hotel to see the ailing Ragheb Bey Nashashibi. By then the Defense Leader was so miserable that he sent out word that he was sound asleep. To open his eyes, Mr. MacDonald sent him a bunch of big red roses...
Proud of the tempest he had started, Mayor Houde got in the last word: "They say I'm crazy. Well, just let war come and we'll see who's crazy...
...Without so much as a cough his left engine died. Plowing her wheels through a tree, the XP-38, with right engine throttled, slammed into the sand bunker of a golf course, came to a stop with her right wing torn off, her props hopelessly snaggled, her fuselage twisted (see cut). A passing motorist helped dazed Ben Kelsey from the wreck. He had been only slightly...
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...