Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disney,*Okla., a string of shacks and saloons thrown up on the site of PWA's $20,000,000 Grand River Dam, last week held its first mayoralty election. Candidates were a sad-eyed grocer named Mrs. Vera Silar, who stood for law & order, and a buxom ex-cowgirl named Billy Baker, who stood for fun & frolic. Idea was to give each boss woman 30 days to try out her ideas, then incorporate under whichever regime Disney liked best. When Disney's Commercial Club tried to limit the ballot to property owners, dam hands rebelled, gave Cowgirl Baker...
Runner-up was Cravat, a former stablemate of Dauber's in the Whitney string, who had been 20 lengths behind the leaders at the half-mile post, had made an equally astonishing stretch finish. Pace-setting Menow was third, Can't Wait fourth...
...ship's luxurious superstructure. In the grand salon Guy Arnoux' lacquered panels of the Marquis de Lafayette winning the American Revolution cracked and sizzled. An Aubusson tapestry in the tea room, showing Washington's Mount Vernon in gay reds and blues, was soon so much burnt string. Firemen hurried aboard and hurried off again, intimidated by the explosions. In the morning all that remained of the Lafayette was a hot mass of twisted metal...
With his first novel, Slim (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934), a story of the linemen who string high-voltage transmission lines, Author Haines, himself a lineman, made a clean jump from transmission poles to best-seller ranks and Hollywood. Though Slim seemed a little too slick for its subject, it nevertheless subordinated romance to accurate descriptions of a dramatic trade and the lusty linemen who follow it. High Tension, first published in the Saturday Evening Post, is wired for more popular tastes, reverses the proportions of romance and realism...
...Georgian March from the "Caucasian Sketches"Ippolitov-Ivanov *Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolai *Spring (String Orchestra) *Bacchanale from "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens *Joyeuse Marche Chabrier Dances of Galanta Kodaly *Delirien," Waltzes Josef Strauss *Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikoysky *Fantasy, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" Churchill-Bodge *"Swing Stuff" McBride Solo clarinet: Manuel Valerio (First performance) *First Hungarian Dance Brahms *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...