Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long distance and once from Oklahoma City--some old grad, determined to clinch an argument with a doubting Eli, demands the score of some such contest as the 1893 Harvard-Yale game. An urgent plea from a local caterer last year routed a Classics professor out of bed to spell "Merry Christmas" in Greek. And a worried aunt checked up on the way the stripes in a crew tie run so as to make no mistake in her knitting. Quiz programs and the discovery by Greater Boston school kids that the phone is easier to use than the almanac have...
...theatre owner who two years ago gave Hollywood the jitters by proscribing Actress Katharine Hepburn and ten other cinemarvels as box-office poison. Mr. Brandt's reprieve came after watching the longest line in the eight-year history of the Radio City Music Hall queued up during a spell of foul weather to pay top prices for a view of Miss Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story. When, after its first four days, the film had set a new record for the period with 110,168 paid admissions in the nation's No. 1 movie house, Exhibitor Brandt...
...year sputtered out, and men in Great Britain made their reckonings and asked their questions: What will happen in 1941? Will invasion vomit suddenly from those scores of angry, bruised sea-mouths from Norway to Normandy? Will the shorthand of Balkan rumor eventually spell out a third front to the war? Will a dozen ex-countries have a future? Will the secrets and mysteries of Japan (see p. 28) be resolved? Above all, will the child of the West plunge his hand into the fire...
Dimitri Mitropoulos thus went through the second week of a month's spell as guest conductor of the Philharmonic. This 44-year-old Greek had been summoned from Minneapolis, whose symphony he has conducted for three years, while the Philharmonic's floppy-haired John Barbirolli-a British subject of Italian-French parentage-went westward, guest-conducting on his own. After recent critical blasts at Barbirolli's spiritless stick-waving (TIME, Dec. 9), veiled comparisons and references to Greek v. Italian were inevitable. Almost unanimously the critics handed Conductor Mitropoulos the decision. Thanks to him, the Philharmonic...
...holler, writhe, snort, bellow, nicker, and in culminating transports, belch. Asked why, they may look blank, indignant. Anton Chekhov once said that the best description of the sea he had ever read was written by a Russian schoolboy: "The sea is vast." Wodehousians explain the master's illimitable spell just as simply: He is funny...