Word: strides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 of Stokowski's recent Russian visit, or Abraham Lincoln, a rambling panegyric by Robert Russell Bennett...
...planned to hold only light drills this week, and there will be no more than one scrimmage for the University squad, so that the Crimson eleven, pointing to avenge last year's defeat at the hands of Dartmouth and Holy Cross, may take the Virginia game in its stride...
...International League for Peace & Freedom, headed by Jane Addams of Chicago's charitarian Hull House; received and was photographed with a delegation of the National Council of Catholic Women; agreed to open the loth Olympic Games at Los Angeles, July 30, which he may take in his stride while campaigning in the West for a second term; sent greetings to President Chiang Kaishek of Republican China on the latter's 20th birthday; sat long with his Cabinet discussing Japan's inroads upon Chinese terrain...
...bands and drum corps spurred on a four-mile parade which took nine hours to pass the reviewing stand. Some 40,000 people paid $3 each to watch the parade from a specially constructed grandstand. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. came all the way from his governorship in Porto Rico to stride by waving his hat and exhibiting a big-toothed grin somewhat like his father's. In sidetracked Pullmans at Windsor. Legionaries were pictured leaning out of windows with bottles of foaming brew in their hands and pointing to what they had scrawled along the car's side...
...Burton had been conceived by Di rector Oursler. Highbrowed, spectacled. Editor Oursler is 38, wrote his first play when he was 9. At 16 he was a reporter on the Baltimore American, at 19 its music critic. He was a piano salesman, law clerk, professional magician before hitting his stride as a novelist and play wright. (Plays: The Spider, Behold This Dreamer. Books: Sandalwood, Stepchild of the Moon.) Few years ago he attached himself to Publisher Macfadden, wrote The True Story of Bernarr Macfadden as a serial in Physical Culture...