Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his Caesar a smash hit, Welles flung his laurel wreath into a cupboard, backed Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock-the sceneryless, music-quickened strike play which a scared WPA had dumped overboard the season before- and The Cradle rocked like mad. Then, having enough of boom and roar. Welles and the Mercury turned back to Elizabethan times for a bellylaugh, rigged up Thomas Dekker's bawdy, roistering The Shoemakers' Holiday. That was a success...
LONDON--Winston Churchill, who as Minister of Colonies in 1922 signed the treaty recognizing the Irish Free State, tonight assailed Prime Minister Eamon De Valera of Ireland as a man who might "strike Britain in the back" in time of war. Churchill, attacking the Irish leader on the floor of the House of Commons, said that "dark forces of the Irish underworld tried to strike us in the back" during the World War "and there are still dark forces at work in Ireland now." In event of war, he added, Ireland might remain neutral or demand "the whole of Ireland...
...Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg, "Tannhauser" Wagner *Overture to "Sakuntala" Goldmark *Turkish March Mozart *"Espana," Rhapsody Chabrier *Suite from the Ballet "Nutcracker" Tchaikovsky Walther's Prize Song from "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Wagner *Divertissement Ibert *Roses from the South," Waltzes Strauss *Malaguena Lecuona *Strike Up the Band" Gershwin...
Only shaky support in the ninth coupled with two bingles prevented the first Crimson shut-out in two years. On three pitched balls Healey retired the Wildcats in the second, and in the third disposed of the side with three strike-outs...
...does not strike very close to home to tell the average U. S. citizen that commodity prices are at 50% of the 1924-26 norm (Dow-Jones). Index figures always seem a little theoretical. Last week, however, the public had plenty of opportunity to be impressed as dollars & cents first-quarter reports for many U. S. businesses put Depression in terms that anyone could understand. With the exception of a few fortunate industries, the figures were unanimous in showing that business has taken a tremendous beating in the first three months of 1938. Samples...