Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to Senate debaters, the time-limit would mean ships of steel; its removal, ships of paper. Complaint was made that if the three-year provision were dropped the new fleet would remain at the blue-print stage indefinitely. To bolster this argument it was recalled that in 1924 Congress authorized eight cruisers, none of which is yet completed, due to slow White House action...
Deceived by press reports, Joseph C. Bloodgood, cancer expert (Johns Hopkins) spoke: "The ordinary amount of sunlight is practically never a cause of cancer. A cancer may develop from burns on the skin by the sunlight but at any stage before the cancer stage is reached, the progress of the affliction may easily be halted. The brown spots that come on the face or neck of farmers or any one who is exposed much to the sun, wind and rain may ultimately become cancers, but not at all necessarily so. They quite often are allowed to go neglected until they...
...Human Skeleton vacationed during the winter in elegant quarters on the Millers' luxurious ranch at Marland, Okla. But it was essentially a Wild West Show, with buffaloes and cattle, cow-men and cowgirls, pistols and scalping knives, and the sure-fire big scene of the Attack on the Stage Coach, with round-eyed, heart-pounding spectators writhing on the edges of pine-board seats...
...modernist Mary Wigman, then head of the Hanover Opera ballet. He came first to the U. S. last year with Max Reinhardt's players and last fortnight he came again, with Danseuse Yvonne Georgi, for a series of performances under the management of that doughty oldtime stage-lady, Elisabeth Marbury...
...Manhattan as the curtain rose on the last performance of the German Grand Opera Company, Walter Elschner, its stage manager, died. He had worked day and night planning and preparing the staging of the Ring operas, snatching rare naps stretched out on chairs in a box at the Opera House, until he suffered a nervous collapse, pneumonia, swift death...