Word: te
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recorded Friday night and sent out to the real dramatis personae on Saturday. On Saturday, too, Cleveland's station WGAR did itself proud with the most notable program by an inland station yet short-waved to the Philippines. Dedicated to General MacArthur and his men was a Te Deum composed in 1936 by the Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Budapest's emancipation from Turkey. The program -by the Cleveland Orchestra -was short-waved "live" from Cleveland's Severance Hall, reached Bataan at churchtime Sunday morning. Said Conductor Artur Rodzinski, introducing...
Married. T. L. Soong, 48, Chinese financier, brother of Foreign Minister T. V. Soong, Mme. Chiang Kaishek; and Maying Hsi, 23-year-old Manhattan art student, daughter of Te-mou Hsi, general manager of the Central Bank of China; in Manhattan...
...Dionne Quintuplets prepared for their third Christmas of the season-the French Canadian whoop-te-do on New Year's. (They celebrated first on Dec. 1 for "Christmas" publicity...
...asked "no favors." Paris papers predicted that General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, ex-Premiers Léon Blum, Edouard Daladier, Paul Reynaud would be moved to a fortress prison for trial at war's end. Marshal Pétain harvested his grapes at Villeneuve-Loubet on the Côte d'Azur. A Fight For Freedom audience of 17,000 cheered when Wendell L Willkie and William S. Knudsen denounced Naziism at Madison Square Garden, Eddie Cantor tripped over his hoopskirts, Swingstress Ella Logan swung Tipperary, Larry MacPhail bussed her, and Bill Robinson tap-danced in a gold-&-ermine...
...produced an authentic clap of thunder, and all the French generals burst into tears." It was the beginning of a life-long love for Bertie, but not for his father. Napoleon III "was simply not a respectable ally." For one thing, there had been that "rather dreadful féte champétre . . . when the Emperor disappeared all evening with Madame Castiglione in the shrubbery, and the Empress fainted with mortification, and all the gentlemen danced with their hats...