Word: spun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musician with a firm, direct beat, a rare sense of rhythm, a clear conception of everything he plays. Except for a youthful Mozart symphony Sir Thomas presented an all-British program. An overture by the redoubtable Dame Ethel Smyth was commonplace noise. Delius was represented by a sensitive, finely spun dance from Koanga, a delicate serenade from Hassan. Vaughan Williams' London Symphony has seldom been made so eloquent, with its suggestion of the ever-rolling Thames, the gay street scenes leading up to a grim hunger march, the solemn, chimes of Big Ben. After Elgar's rollicking Cockaigne...
Fortnight ago, a chill spell made firm the flooded tennis courts of the Park Avenue Skating Club. Grateful for the chance to exhibit her wares outdoors, Skater Vinson spun gracefully through the air, displayed startling designs to admirers. Finishing an elementary figure-eight, she suddenly teetered, screeched, bumped her bottom. Undamaged, Maribel Vinson rose, caressed her billowing skirts into place, twirled proudly...
What are needed are more Professor Baxters, more Bishops are York, more exchange professors. Until such men can create mutual understanding between nations, peace and other great ideals will remain transparent, fantastic webs spun by dreamers...
...Never having outgrown his juvenile appetite for maritime adventure, the 32nd U. S. President's eyes sparkled appreciatively last week when he stepped ashore on a Treasure Island as fabulous as Robert Louis Stevenson's. Like a big green peppermint gum drop ringed with a frost of spun sugar, the densely vegetated peaks of Cocos Island rose some 2,000 ft. over his head, while all around the island's steep 13-mile perimeter the Pacific lathered its boiling white waves. Offshore the President could see porpoise sporting glossily. Shark fins cut through the tropical waters like...
Next day the royal party journeyed by way of Geneva to Budapest amid whose Gypsy dance clubs Mrs. Simpson, in a dinner coat of spun glass, first became notable as his partner (TIME, March 11). Last week the Hungarian Secret Service recalled that during his visit last year only the most strenuous efforts kept out of newsorgans the fact that H. R. H. amused himself some evenings by standing in his bedroom in the Hotel Dunapalota and breaking the electric light bulbs in a room opposite with well-aimed shots from his pistol...