Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sibeliophiles may find impressive the incidental music to Belshazzar's Feast, recorded on Victor for the first time by Robert Kajanus and the London Philharmonic (M715). I find it intolerably labored and mediocre. A self-conscious stab at the sort of exotic orchestral coloring one finds in Rimsky-Korsakoff, Belshazzar's Feast purports to describe scenes at an eastern potentate's court. The first and last movements, "Oriental Procession" and "Khadra's Dance," are nothing but meaningless jumbles of sound, with no melodic interest whatsoever and very little success in evoking any imaginative picture. The middle two movements, "Night...
Significance. Britain already outnumbered the Axis in battleships, 19-to-12, allowing for the commissioning of five King George Vs and two German ships and both the Italian battleships abuilding. The stab at Taranto reduced the ratio locally from 6-to-4 in favor of Italy to 4-to-3 in favor of the British. But the action at Taranto meant a great deal more than the British gaining battle-force supremacy in the Mediterranean...
Last June 10, at Charlottesville, Va., President Roosevelt slapped Benito Mussolini with his "Stab-in-the-Back" remark. Last week Franklin Roosevelt & Co. jolted Mussolini again. Mexican officials said they acted on a tip from the U. S. State Department when at a border station they pounced on the Italian Legation pouch en route from Washington to Mexico City and broke its seals in violation of the diplomatic immunity of the Italian courier...
...young Austrian heart specialist named William Raab gave himself a stiff injection of adrenalin. In a few minutes he felt an agonizing stab in his shoulder, a choking sensation in his throat, lightning pains down his left arm, a drenching sweat. Dr. Raab's agony was really a triumph. For he had produced, for the first time, symptoms of the dread heart disease, angina pectoris...
...period the Carrmen got under way, and led by Danny Poor and Buzz Sawhill they threatened the Brown nets several times, but a score wasn't in the books, for each attack was finally repulsed. During the fourth period the Bruins took over and made more than one serious stab through the Crimson defense. Owing to the sparkling work of goalie Jack Penson, none of these drives ended in scoring. The overtime period found the mud and cold telling on the players' efficiency, as their efforts became sluggish and the deadlock was not broken...