Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would seem that the University suffered considerable degeneration as the 20th century toddled from its cradle. Where the question of Imperialism filled the pages of the "Harvard Democrat" in 1900, the following item appeared in the "Harvard Anarchist...
...Service, I had been a powder maker for the du Pont Powder Co. for three years; three years in which I had learned the value of technical training by watching men who had it promoted over my head because I didn't have it. Strange as it may seem, I bowed to the Board's ukase...
Garlanded with such laurels at an age when her contemporaries become inflated with conceit about a gold star on the report card, it might seem natural for the most celebrated child alive to be in private life also the most objectionable sample of precocity, weight for age, who ever gave sharp answers to her betters. Such is not the case. Disappointing as the case may be to child psychologists of certain schools and persons judicious enough to distrust the customary vaporings of cinema fan magazines, Hollywood chatter columnists and professional pressagents, Shirley Temple is actually a peewee paragon...
First concert was in Hartford, where the players blamed the recent flood for what seemed to be a cool reception even to Stokowski's dazzling Bach orchestrations, the electrified excerpts from Wagner's Gotterdammerung. But Boston more than made up for Hartford's apathy. In Hartford Stokowski played a Bach encore "because you seem to love Bach so." In Boston he played four encores because Bostonians clamored for them. Gist of Stokowski's speech in Boston was his admiration for Boston's Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony "from which I learned so much...
Rightful hero of the tour is the conductor who built up the Philadelphia Orchestra to be one of the greatest in the world. Last week's audiences were fascinated by Stokowski: his swift graceful dash for the podium, the svelte back he turned, the fine graceful hands which seem to mold every phrase of the music that is played. The orchestramen seemed like cogs in a magic wheel, but within the Orchestra each player has an important identity. Violinist Alexander Hilsberg is envied for his $35,000 Guarnerius which once belonged to Jan Kubelik. Tubaman Philip Donatelli...