Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blows were traded in Naples' steep and narrow alleys, but not this time over politics. The issue was more intimate. In Italy, as much as anywhere else, war and military occupation had played hob with marriages; but men & women who wanted to shed their mates and start afresh with new ones were out of luck. By virtue of the 1929 Lateran Treaty, the state followed the law of the church, which in rare cases grants annulments (30 out of 75 requests from all over the world in 1944-45)-but never divorce...
Recently Grinnell's Burma brought the Hart census analysis up to date (1940). He found that after 1910 there was no such rise in the native white population as Hart observed. His conclusion: the figures of the Census Bureau cannot be used to shed any light on the number of Negroes who pass...
...since Serge Koussevitzky introduced Negro Soprano Dorothy Maynor in 1939 had there been such a buzz of anticipation in the Berkshires. Six thousand musical pilgrims, who had bought their tickets weeks in advance, sat shivering in Tanglewood's Music Shed. Outside, in the chilly evening, another 2,000 huddled in the dew-covered grass. They were gathered to hear the U.S. premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's new Ninth Symphony...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week left the heat and din of Nanking for breezeswept Kuling, the mountain resort which used to be China's prewar summer capital. There he shed his uniform for a comfortable gown and strolled about the clean-swept, maple-shaded streets. Nevertheless, the political temperature continued to rise and the Government's discomfiture increased...
...This and Premieres Too. Tanglewood, a 210-acre estate which Nathaniel Hawthorne used as a setting for his Tanglewood Tales, was given to the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1936. Two years later some of Koussevitzky's admirers built the Shed, an $80,000 fan-shaped acoustical dream...