Word: swarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Iturbi, swart, muscular pianist-conductor, began the 1936 U. S. summer music season with more engagements than any other hot-weather maestro (TIME, July 6). By last week, when the season was closing, Iturbi had made more news than any of his colleagues, less by able conducting than by magnificent exhibitions of Spanish spunk...
...sport writers at work, a whole newspaper going to press. Critics found Composer Grofe's latest work exciting but unmusical, liked best Mr. Whiteman doing good reliable Gershwin. Two nights later the Dell season officially opened, with the audience cheering Beethoven's Eroica as done by swart, chunky Conductor-Pianist Jose Iturbi...
...trial in Supreme Court were swart, droop-eyed Charles Lucania and nine henchmen charged with having put New York City brothels on a big-business basis. Until 1933, explained Special Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey in his opening address to the jury, the city's prostitution was an individualistic enterprise, with a few "bookers" operating small strings of "houses" (apartments). Then various racketeers decided that a handsome profit could be made by assessing each prostitute $10 per week for bail bond, on a guarantee that she would never be jailed. One autumn day Lucania, a gambler and narcotic seller known...
...David lined up three sympathetic Russian bishops whose spiritual powers were, after all, as efficacious as those of any other Orthodox churchmen. In St. George's Church last week these, with the aid of four Orthodox priests, consecrated Samuel David. With his gilt-&-scarlet crown firmly on his swart head, Archbishop David thereupon waited for the Patriarch of Antioch to grant him jurisdiction, to which he felt canonically entitled. Failing that, a schism was forecast among confused U. S. Syrians...
...they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him. And they went to Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered the synagogue and taught. . . . -Mark, I: 17-22. In the Smithsonian Institution in Washington one day last week, a swart Assyrian-born scholar named Dr. George W. Lamsa bent over a photostat of a large block of weathered stone covered with squiggly characters. He immediately recognized these as Aramaic, quickly and easily translated them into English...