Word: tautly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strauss's taut, frenetic music deeply moved the audience last week. People stayed to cheer long after it had ended. Under Conductor Artur Bodanzky the basses whirred an awful suspense while Elektra waited for Klytemnestra's death scream. The horns exclaimed wildly while Elektra danced herself to death. Few critics bothered to carp at the stuffy stage production. They were grateful to the hard-pressed Metropolitan for mounting even so tardily a great opera which is unlikely to prove a great box-office attraction...
...Tower Tour. Last week Speaker Garner, before leaving Manhattan for Texas, called on Alfred Emanuel Smith in the Empire State Building, spent a taut hour pleading with him to be a "good Democrat'' and join the campaign. Mr. Smith eyed him narrowly, promised nothing. The Speaker departed without being escorted to the building's 200-ft. tower by its president and shown the view. Mr. Smith only takes friends to the tower. Cartoonist Edward T. Brown of the Herald-Tribune drew a picture of Mr. Smith at the top of the building with the Democratic donkey baying below. The title...
...speeches, no cheers. Mechanics turned to promptly, removing the five engines from their egglike gondolas (but leaving the propellers), valving out 60% of the helium into storage tanks. To the chance observer the ship looked about as usual. As everyone knows, a rigid airship's skin is taut whether the gas cells are full or empty...
None of these compared in size or determination with the B. E. F., last week estimated at 20,000 strong. Under Commander-in-Chief Walter W. Waters they were quiet, orderly, law-abiding. After the Senate rejected their demand, though, Washington grew taut with apprehension. What would these idle, ragged men, ghosts of the A. E. F., do next? Police Chief Glassford of the District of Columbia suggested giving them Federal lands to till for a living. Commander Waters said they would "dig in for the winter" and stay "till hell freezes." Red agitators began to work within the ranks...
...went off in a luxurious apartment nearby. No one heard it except Ivar Kreuger, the "Swedish Match King," the self-made colossus of Scandinavian finance. Matchman Kreuger was putting a bullet into his heart for business reasons (see p. 45) and for human reasons. His nerves were drawn so taut (he had suffered a nervous breakdown recently in New York) that to release the strain was welcome, sweet. His physician had warned him the day before that his heart would not stand much more. "M. Kreuger is sleeping," said the concierge of the apartment about 1:30 p.m. when Vice...