Word: sunday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...text was released from Berlin, while the Führer left the mainland to spend the week-end at Helgoland, fortified German island in the North Sea. Nazi officials did not bother to clear up the mystery of the reason for the shutdown. Theory given in London's Sunday Express was: "Hitler had prepared no speech. He had spent Friday night in a state of high emotion and intense anger against Britain for her moves to curb his future planned aggressions. He was described as looking much tenser than usual. Suddenly his entourage realized when he began that, having...
...British battleship, then to Madrid on a sightseeing tour. He had put up at the spacious U. S. Embassy as the guest of Francisco Ugarte, the Embassy's caretaker. Marveled young Mr. Kennedy at Madrid's fall: "Did you ever see anything like it?" After attending Palm Sunday Mass, he went to Burgos, planned to leave Spain soon and report to Father Kennedy his observations and conversations with Loyalist leaders, Foreign Minister Julián Besteiro and Colonel Segismundo Casado. Young Kennedy wrote his honors thesis at Harvard last year on the legal aspects of the Spanish...
...Italianized name and recognized vocal experience, usually in Milan. The modern and more democratic way of crashing grand opera is via the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air, a competition sponsored each winter since 1935 by The Sherwin-Williams Co., paint makers, over the NBC-Blue network Sunday afternoons...
...Last Sunday afternoon six finalists, selected by a jury headed by the Metropolitan's General Manager Edward Johnson from among the 54 voices aired (altogether 659 had been auditioned) in the 1938-39 competition, gathered in a studio in Manhattan's Radio City to hear which two of them had won the two $1,000 first prizes and contracts with the Metropolitan. Of the six, none sported Italian names, only one had studied in Europe. The two men were big, straight fellows-baritones. The four women-sopranos-were young, slim, uncommonly pretty, utterly un-divalike. The winners: Lyric...
...precisely 8:25 every morning except Sunday last week, the employes of the First National Bank of Pikeville, Ky. entered the bank through a side door, filed past a chiming cuckoo clock, gathered in the directors' room. There Bookkeeper Mary Clark seated herself at a shiny electric organ and began a service consisting of a hymn, ten Bible verses, a short but earnest homily. The homily was delivered by stout, expansive, 39-year-old John Marvin Yost, the bank's vice president, cashier, trust officer and secretary. Sample sentiment: "Pikeville is the grandest town that ever...