Word: tenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richard Rodgers is not only the master of a tonal palette filled with surprise and delight, but he is constantly at search for new forms across the known boundaries of his medium. The dream music for Peggy-Ann, and twelve years later for Married An Angel, the "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" ballet music for On Your Toes, the march of the clowns in Jumbo, while probably causing Richard Strauss no alarm for his laurels, are imaginative and charming be yond the accepted standards of musicomedy music...
...good grey Archbishop of Paris, Jean Cardinal Verdier, said to them: "You have sworn to effect that miracle upon which in our timidity we had no longer counted." The 75,000 were Jocists, members of JOC (Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne-Christian Working Youth), celebrating the tenth anniversary of the most vigorous youth movement outside Europe's dictator nations...
...rushed out. Candidate Eliot, trained to sportsmanship on the playing fields of Cambridge, invited him to speak. If nominated, Tom Eliot's harder fight will come in November, against crafty old Republican Robert Luce, 75, president of famed Luce's Press Clipping Bureau, who is seeking a tenth term in Congress...
...tenth annual International Sourdough Reunion. Swapping tall stories, but doing little whooping in the Multnomah bar (see cut), which, like other Oregon taprooms, serves no hard liquor, were such diverse sourdoughs as Alaska's Episcopal Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe, Henry Macaulay, first mayor of Dawson, Editor Frank J. Cotter of Seattle's Alaska Weekly, scores of old Yukon prospectors, storekeepers, mail clerks...
...tenth annual National Air Races in Cleveland last week end for prizes handsome enough to cover the cost of a racing plane and a decent burial, the speed-mad fringe of U. S. aviation whistled up a great sound and fury. When it was all over, the pockets of Cleveland Promoters Cliff and Phil Henderson were again lined, only one flier had been killed,† and the whinny of ships racing against borrowed time had proved that aviation still has plenty of broncos...