Word: starkly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schafer was prevailed upon to go back into the hotel and get the players' overcoats. Trainer Schafer's earthquake experience was trying. He was taking a shower at the ball park when the first shock hit. The next thing he knew he was standing on second base stark naked...
...many, the fact that the Juilliard was not seeing the Metropolitan through its difficulties seemed as unaccountable as Mr. Erskine's erroneous implication. When Augustus ("A. D.") Juilliard died in 1919 he was president of the Metropolitan boxowners. He had grown up in Stark County, Ohio, migrated to Manhattan, made a fortune in textiles which toward the end of his life interested him far less than the opera. He went to nearly every performance. He was in his box the night he became fatally ill. In his will he left $14,000,000 to create a Juilliard Musical Foundation...
...modern musical realism which occupies so large a place in contemporary thought." He had used melodies which were conventionally sweet. His horns sang out politely over tremulous violins. Critics were not impressed but the bulk of the audience was far more enthusiastic than it had been over the stark, sardonic symphony of Bernard Wagenaar, played earlier in the season, or over the picture music of Abram Chasins which Toscanini played two years...
...left in a shattering storm of applause. Ten times there appeared with him a stocky, wavy-haired man in busi- ness clothes who stood and looked bewildered. The coffee-colored man was Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, the bewildered one Composer Louis Gruenberg. Because Gruenberg had been fascinated by a short, stark play of Eugene O'Neill's called Emperor Jones, because he had hunted O'Neill out one midnight in Paris two years ago, got permission to set the play to music and then proceeded potently to do so, New York had witnessed the premiere of the most...
Laureate v Laureate, The study of cosmic rays is "a whining brat which knows no law, is against the government, and has no real friend except his mother," began Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan. At the platform's left stood two glistening spheres on stark pedestals, capable of generating a million & a half volts of artificial lightning. From the shadows glowered the vast skeleton of a plaster dinosaur. All along the walls lay the paraphernalia of modern science. In every seat sat a scientist tensely waiting to hear how oppositely the two U. S. Nobel Laureates in Physics explained cosmic...