Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second marriage, necessitated by Marina's Greek Orthodox faith, solid gold vessels and nuptial crowns were provided in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace. Undisclosed was the emolument of gorgeously robed and perfumed Archimandrite Germanos for his "Oh Lord our God, crown them with glory and honor...
Alfred Hertz gave Impresario Gaetano Merola good cause last week to worry over his budget. For years the San Francisco Opera ran no deficit. Last season there was one of some $30,000. Merola often undertakes a performance with next to no rehearsals; Hertz demands many. But as the solid old German stood in the pit last week, sweat gleaming from his bald pate, his beard pointing eagerly toward the stage. San Franciscans forgot all about dollars and deficits in the fine sweep of his orchestral performance...
...Senate. With their 69 seats the Democrats will have a majority in that body-even if they lose every Democratic Senator who comes up for re-election-until Jan. 3, 1939. Granting that Democrats are elected to the Senate from the eleven States of the Solid South, the party can maintain a Senate majority until Jan. 3, 1941 by holding in 1936 or 1938 only eight other seats in normally doubtful States. Result: If a Republican President should succeed Mr. Roosevelt in 1937, he would have a hostile Senate on his hands throughout his four years in the White House...
...treble sound clear and strong while the bass poured out a seething undercurrent. Compared with most pianists, Paul Wittgenstein has a fairly small hand. His trick was to train it to lightning speed, to develop his pedal technique so that he could cover transitions gracefully and subtly, give a solid, two-handed effect...
Eldest of eleven children of an English country parson, apparently a solid character, John Cowper Powys was erratic from the start. From early childhood, he says, his life was dominated by a besetting neurotic sin. He calls it sadism but from the many examples he gives it sounds more like the peeping passion. As a young man he used to make trips to Brighton for the sole purpose of looking at girls' legs as they lay on the beach. For years he periodically bought and feverishly devoured armfuls of French pornographic books. When he first went to Manhattan, penny...