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Word: stay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...championed ultra-modern composers, who always seem to send Conductor Stokowski into a highly sensitive state. Last week was no exception. During the curious sounds listed as a Symphony for Small Orchestra by Anton Webern, someone sneezed. Coughs and chuckles were instantly let loose. But Conductor Stokowski did not stay to hear them. His arms fell abruptly to his sides. The orchestra stopped playing, watched him stride furiously backstage. Chuckles subsided amid hisses. Silence followed. Then, in order to fetch Stokowski, the audience decided to clap. No further rude behavior interrupted Mosolow's Soviet Iron Foundry, a bombastic souvenir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sneeze | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

...affairs of Europe. Any measure is valuable that will make Americans realize that the problems of living have been worked out just as creditably across the Atlantic as here. Though only a few can benefit directly from the scholarship, broadening ideas are sure to filter back to the stay-at-homes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEAU GET | 10/31/1931 | See Source »

...House Plan has brought together men from different fields, but casual conversation, with its tendency to stay on the surface, does not produce the intellectual clash, and consequent examination of fundamentals, which ought to make the Houses vital intellectual influences as well as superior eating clubs. The plan for House forums is an ideal one; its realization would be difficult. But the prize is worth all the effort which can go toward attaining...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A POSSIBLE SOLUTION | 10/27/1931 | See Source »

...Texas squad left the homeland this morning and are now en route for the game that has been attracting attention in the southwest for the past year and a half. The squad of Texans will stay at Belmont...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEVEN AIMS AT SPEED IN DUMMY SCRIMMAGE | 10/21/1931 | See Source »

...keep his son in an "advanced" school in England, where he is being "cured" of a mother-fixation. The U. S., he declares, is "a spiritual vacuum, a cultural desert." Claire Shelby wants to go back "where her roots are"; more important, she wants to have her child. To stay in the next room come two old friends, Waldo Lynde (Donald MacDonald) and his promiscuous wife Susie (Millicent Green). Waldo is satisfied with life as a U. S. lawyer, thinks "we must go the way the world is going, not where it came from." Susie seduces John. takes him away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 19, 1931 | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

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