Word: stream
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tail, or even behind black, handle-bar moustachios, or with a sawed-off shotgun bulging through his trouser-leg, or last of all, only in his especial minions, J. P. Morgan, A. Capone, and B. Zaharoff. Truly I (for I am he) have been well oiled and stream-lined since those silly days...
...years the wheels of industry, the fleets that sail the seas, the post office department, and the society columns of the newspapers, indeed, the whole world is upset by an insidious confusion that arises from the fact that we have an extra day thrown into an otherwise smoothly running stream of time. The system is so inaccurate that every four hundred years, as regularly as the sun rises and sets, we must skip a Leap Year. Could anything be more ridiculous than skipping a Leap Year...
...shirts and sped to the splendiferous Metropolitan Opera House premiere of his master work, Lady Macbeth of Mzensk (TIME, Feb.11, 1935). Pravda called Shostakovich's compositions "un-Soviet, unwholesome, cheap, eccentric and tuneless." The devastating Communist epithet "bourgeois" was tagged to them. Rehearsals of his latest ballet Limpid Stream, on which the Corps de Ballet of Moscow's great Bolshoi Theatre have been working diligently for months, were canceled. As Soviet critics leaped to a new point of view which would save their jobs last week, they discovered that James Joyce's Ulysses, previously so esteemed...
...whose intended career is the theatre and its allied arts, and she may point with pride at many illustrious examples, such as Osgood Perkins, Walter Hampden, Kenneth Macgowan, John Mason Brown, and Donald Oenslager. Back in the days of Professor Baker's English 47 and the Workshop, the stream of Harvard men into the theatre's ranks was steady and large, but with Professor Baker's and the Drama department's migration to New Haven, the torrent dwindled to a mere trickle, fed only by the untiring efforts of the Dramatic Club. The students do not look upon their Dramatic...
Though there were pumps in the earliest days their positions are now unknown. A map of the college drawn in 1811 locates three pumps parallel to the stream which ran through the low part of the Yard and across the Square...