Word: summered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last summer U. S. prosecutors and a staff of G-Men checked up the La Follette revelations, persuaded a Federal grand jury at Frankfort to indict a formidable list which last week was reduced by death, illness, and nolle prosequi to the following: the Harlan County Coal Operators Association; 20 coal companies, 22 executives; 22 former or present Harlan County peace officers, including Sheriff (now ex-Sheriff) Theodore Middleton, who had told Senator La Follette "a lot of violence has been committed by my deputies." Last week Mr. Middleton and his co-defendants jammed a good portion of the tiny...
...industrial town of Düsseldorf, Nazi musical authorities opened a Reich Music Congress, attended by musical big& little-wigs from all over Germany. Outstanding event on the program was an exhibition of "degenerate music" patterned after the exhibition of "degenerate art" that drew throngs in Munich last summer (TIME, Aug. 2). Scheduled for the pillory were compositions by Atonalists Schönberg, Berg and Hindemith, jazz, theoretical and critical writings by Jews and modernist sympathizers...
...Casey?" wasp-waisted little wives whispered into their husbands' sideburns as young De Wolf Hopper recited the last stanza of a poem called Casey at the Bat in Wallack's Theatre on Broadway one summer night in 1888. It was a gala baseball night in honor of the visiting Chicago White Stockings and the management had clipped the tragi-comic verses out of the San Francisco Examiner for young Hopper to deliver as an added fillip between the acts of the operetta, Prince Methusalem...
...gently rolling hills of Southern Connecticut, within an hour or two's easy ride from any Manhattan bar, lies the greatest concentration of literary and intellectual celebrities and near-celebrities in the U. S. Some live there all year round, others appear in the summer. Tilling of the soil is widespread; as a topic of conversation it is universal. It was inevitable that one day from this bucolic Parnassus should come forth an urbane country weekly. This week it came forth: the Connecticut Nutmeg, an 8-page tabloid with no pictures except two large nutmegs on either side...
...Vengeance in Leka," described as a "bloodthirsty one-act play", written by Wycliff McCracken, student last summer under John Mason Brown '23 in the Summer School will be produced by students studying acting, stage management, and play writing...