Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sixth month of pregnancy, was physically able to proceed with her involuntary motherhood. Social service workers reported that "the child mother wants to keep her baby because it will be like having a big wonderful doll to play with." So Judge Johnson also forbade the abortion. The tenor of most of the indignant comments on the Denver case, which rose from all sections of the nation, was that the abortion should have been performed, not perhaps for strictly physical reasons* but because of the emotional, mental and social damage motherhood of this kind may involve...
...gone and in its place there is a new and confusing set of standards and ideals. It may be a simple thing for the nomadic urbanites to fit in this new mold but for the country folk it is puzzling and upsetting to change the serene, soil-rooted tenor of their lives in accordance with these new and unfamiliar conditions. Upon this background Miss Suckow has fashioned an absorbing and deeply satisfying novel...
...Motors and Henry Ford. Their start was simultaneous-Sunday 8 p. m. E. S. T. The Detroit Symphony fought for Ford, with Conductor Victor Kolar, yellow-haired Maria Jeritza. 24 choristers. G. M. assembled its own orchestra, hired spectacular Leopold Stokowski to wave his pale hands over it and Tenor Richard Crooks to sing. Soloists will vary in the expensive radio bout. G. M. has a starry list of conductors. Ford will stick to Victor Kolar, Ossip Gabrilowitsch's hard-working associate, who conducted at A Century of Progress last summer. Ford's motives are divided: besides selling...
...lecture-concerts being given weekly throughout the year at the Academy of Music under Olin Downes, Music Critic and New York Times Commentator. Some distinguished artists are on the schedule at the Academy this year, including Lawrence Tibbet, baritone; Lily Pons, soprano; Yehudi Menuhin, violinist; and Richard Crooks, tenor...
...invitation to conduct at Bayreuth, arrived from Italy. King Prajadhipok of Siam and his Queen were on hand. No Nazis could prevent German Bruno Walter from conducting because they had already exiled him. When the Reich's Chamber of Culture asked Charles Kullman, a U. S. tenor under contract to the Berlin Staatsoper, to decline his invitation to Salzburg, he angrily pointed to his U. S. citizenship, entrained for Austria anyhow...