Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lived in Australia three years and have seen five koalas. Four that lived in a chicken coop in a backyard in Melbourne and one wild one. The wild one cried and when given some leaves to eat wanted to play. I gave it a finger and it bit me as hard as a newborn lamb can bite...
Most amazing of Mike's activities were his return visits to two branches of National City where he had been successful. In each case he was interviewed by the same employe who had seen him before under a different name. He got four loans in four calls at two banks...
...sell in England phonograph records of a royal broadcast.* It would be a travesty of British facts not to say roundly that there was "the heaviest possible British censorship emanating from official quarters" last week. Actually this never ceased. Before, during and since the crisis, no London newspaper has seen fit to print anything seriously embarrassing to His Majesty's Government. By printing the clowning jibes of G. B. Shaw and the earnest expostulations of H. G. Wells an appearance of non-censorship was being maintained at latest reports. This enhanced the effectiveness of a general "smothering campaign" which...
...some respects the stage setting of a wintersports show is more remarkable than the show. A good deal of what the 12,000 winter-famished New Yorkers, who packed Madison Square Garden every night, watched last week they could have seen gratis on many a country hillside. Skiers shot off the slide in jumps about one-half as long as good outdoor jumps, gave demonstrations of rudimentary turns. Department store models tried and failed to live up to their skiing costumes. Fancy skaters whirled on the miniature rinks. In the steam-heated cellar below the snowdrifts, agents for innumerable winter...
...closed in April 1935 when Giulio Gatti-Casazza took down his nameplate and stepped forever out of the general manager's office. For 27 years, Gatti had laid down the law to the most famous opera company in the world. He had seen that company once proud & secure. He had cut down his budget on high-priced singers. He had watched the Met struggle through Depression years by shortening its season, humble itself in a desperate tin-cup campaign. Few weeks before Gatti's resignation, the harassed Opera Board signed over its independence to the Juilliard Musical Foundation...