Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian Treasury was ordered by Benito Mussolini last week to start paying residents of Italy who fought in the Imperial Austrian Army a pension-just as if they had fought for instead of against Italy in the World...
...quintet" (which consists not of five, but of six instrumentalists), Composer Scott has recently created a "jazz laboratory" at CBS. Here, with recording equipment, engineers and arrangers at his disposal, he is continuing his curious task of building music directly for the microphone. His method is to start one player on a rhythm or a phrase of melody, add another instrument, adjust the balance between the two, throw in a dash of drumming or a splash of saxophone, and simmer the resultant mixture until ready for recording. With the help of recordings and re-recordings he can finally work...
Boys Town (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). In 1917 a young Omaha priest named Father Edward J. Flanagan borrowed $90 to start a unique U. S. institution: Boys Town, Neb., a home for waifs, run according to its founder's belief that there is no such thing as a bad boy. Lately grown acutely conscious of the problems of youth, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer naturally found in Boys Town cinematerial well up to the standard of that supplied by the Russell-Cotes naval training institution in England. The result, in this picture, is a companion piece to Lord Jeff, with Mickey Rooney...
India's impoverished rural children, who will go to school from ages 5 to 14, 288 days a year, will work for their education four hours each school day, making cloth, etc. for sale. Plan is to start each school by getting a patriot to give a piece of land yielding at least $80 a year. The rest of the cost is to be met by village festivals, Government grants. Teachers will live in the schoolhouses, be paid $8 a month, sign up for a minimum of 25 years' service. A problem: enlisting women teachers. India has virtually...
...second guinea, to a society for helping women enter the professions, also has a string tied to it: the women must withdraw from the professions as soon as they can, before they start yawning at dinner. The third guinea goes to a society for prevention of war-and because Virginia Woolf is not very sure how societies go about preventing war, it has no conditions at all. She sympathizes, naturally, with its aims. But to the invitation to join its ranks she answers No. Women are different from men; they would lose their identity by going into bi-sexual societies...