Word: sped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Igor Stravinsky became an overnight celebrity in Russia when he wrote Fireworks as a wedding present for Rimsky-Korsakov's daughter. Diaghilev commissioned him in 1910 to compose for the Russian Ballet. In the next few years Stravinsky's name sped across Europe as the author of the blazing, polyphonic Firebird and the riotous Petrouchka. The harsh, neolithic percussions of Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps were less welcome, made first-nighters in Paris hiss and jeer. Stravinsky unconcernedly went his way. Suddenly he announced he was through with picture-music and would "return to Bach." His style...
...East Irvington, N. Y,, answering a midnight emergency call, Patrolman George Butler sped his radio car to an out-of-the-way household where Mrs. Eleanor Moller, 22, was about to bear her third child, in a kitchen, alone. Police Doctor Cassius De Victoria was soon en route in another police radio car, but Mrs. Moller could not wait. Patrolman Butler edged his car up to the window of the kitchen where she lay, turned up the radio to full blast, so Dr. De Victoria could tell him what to do. In a few minutes John Joseph Butler Moller...
...take their stockings from his mantelpiece, when the family assembled around the Christmas tree in the second-floor hall, and later when they went to the Church of the Covenant, filling an entire row at an interdenominational Christmas service, Mrs. Roosevelt was absent. During the night she had sped to Boston to spend Christmas at Franklin Jr.'s bedside. Although doctors finally refused to let him go home for Christmas, he was still officially described as "doing fine." all rumors to the contrary...
...park his car. When he returned, Boss Bruno was gone. Four hours passed before he reported the escape to the jail warden. Guard Irving explained that he had been searching Pottsville's business district for the prisoner. Outraged, Pennsylvania's Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti sped to Pottsville for an investigation among Boss Bruno's old political friends. Arrested were Guard Irving, the jail warden, his deputy, Boss Bruno's daughter...
Next morning off tiny Bird Island in the Leeward Archipelago Franklin Roosevelt accomplished the one thing still necessary to make his trip a complete success. At 7:15 a. m. after an early breakfast the Indianapolis and Chester anchored and while the destroyer Phelps sped north with pouches of Presidential mail, four small boats were lowered and Franklin Roosevelt in one of them spent three hours catching 34 fish, chiefly pompano and barracuda...