Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What sort of a jam did you think he was in? ... You did not think it had anything to do with women or horses...
...them women with children in their arms, lengthened outside the city's relief stations. At two stations, applicants sat down, refused to budge for two days. At another a dozen or so formed a brass band to entertain their fellows. Said welfare office Supervisor Delia Milder: "They are sort of desperate now. They have been very tense...
...been discharged because there was no money for their pay checks, stayed on as volunteers. The city council raised a $50,000 stopgap appropriation which had been used up by last week's end. While breadless breadlines lengthened and the city council met to think up some sort of new emergency solution to tide the city over through the month or so until funds appear. Mayor Harold Hitz Burton made what was apparently meant to be a reassuring statement: "Although there are no funds available, no one will starve...
...aided by rumors that he was about to receive the Nobel Prize, which secured his transfer to a hospital. There the German guards wore him down until he gave his word that even if he ever got out of the hospital he would never again engage in any sort of pacifism. There was no suggestion of foul play last week in the death of long-ailing, wornout, beaten Nobelman Ossietsky...
Exuberant Sir Thomas can usually be counted on to pull a rabbit of some sort out of his hat. This season's rabbit: an unknown, good-looking, 26-year-old,Polish-born soprano named Margaret Kubatzki. Soprano Kubatzki, making her official Covent Garden debut in a role previously sung by the eminent Kirsten Flagstad (Senta in Wagner's The Flying Dutch-man), created a sensation. Said Conductor Beecham: "One night last October I was turning the various knobs of a wireless ... I heard a magnificent voice. . . . When I went to Germany to make records of the Magic Flute...