Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Notably absent from the programs was the name of Colonel Wassily de Basil; notably present was the familiar trademark of Concert Manager Sol Hurok. Long-nosed Léonide Massine was still choreographer, still danced with his wonted spirit. But of the Ballet's four familiar prima ballerinas-Tatiana Riabouchinska, Irina Baronova, Alexandra Danilova and Tamara Toumanova-the first two were missing. In their places were two newly acquired slim-limbed bids for U.S. favor: diminutive, British-born Alicia Markova (Alice Marks), and Nini Theilade (pronounced Tay-lah'-de), an exotic, Javanese-born tripper of mixed Danish, Polish...
Ever since Manhattan became Bagdad-on-the-Subway 34 years ago, lusty Chicago has toyed with the idea of an underground of its own. But despite years of fantastic traffic messes, civic pounding, editorial urging and earnest planning, Chicago is still the biggest city in the world without a passenger subway...
...mounted beside a regular barometric altimeter. Up the Hudson River it flew at 800 feet, both dials registering alike. But as it crossed towering George Washington Bridge, the reading on the new altimeter dropped to 500 feet. Few miles farther on the plane banked sharply, headed for the Palisades, still flying at 800 feet by the barometric altimeter. As it approached the sheer bluff the other needle quivered, then dropped to 250 feet as the ship passed over...
...sodium bicarbonate, and presumably a certain amount of calcium of the food was transformed in the intestine into insoluble calcium sulfate which was then evacuated." The result was "a calcium deficiency of the skeletal system." When the patient was deprived of Carlsbad salts his disease was checked. Although still short and top-heavy he can now move about free and uncorseted...
...Washington gossip was that the Administration group in the Temporary National Economic (Antimonopoly) Committee had definitely swiped control from Senator O'Mahoney. At least the committee last week sent out a batch of subpoenas without Chairman O'Mahoney's knowledge. Nonetheless, Senator O'Mahoney is still TNEC's titular chief and when he rose before the New York Board of Trade for his first complete explanation of his committee's purpose, Business sat up and took notice. Excerpts...