Word: though
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week, day before the bride's birthday, the couple were married. Kurt Schuschnigg was unable to attend his own wedding, for though he had been escorted away from Belvedere, he was being held for questioning in Vienna's former Hotel Metropole, now Nazi secret political police headquarters. By special mandate his brother, Dr. Arthur Schuschnigg, former director of the Austrian Federal Broadcasting Co., went in for him at the altar. The Countess, holding a bouquet of yellow roses sent by her absentee groom, was solemnly married to the proxy, then broke open a note from the real...
...Holiday, Playwright Barry was, it now appears, touching a more delicate nerve centre than anyone could have guessed before Depression. Consequently, all Screenwriter Stewart had to do to make it look as though the play had been written yesterday was to underscore its already plotted class-angles. Thus, Julia Seton's father becomes an anti-New Deal tory, who regards his prospective son-in-law's distrust of rugged individualistic money-grubbing as dangerously unAmerican. Johnny Case (Gary Grant) becomes the more ingratiating when his ambition to take a sabbatical is presented as evidence of liberal leanings. Linda...
Undaunted, 500,000 Britons jampacked Epsom Downs last week. As the field of 22 three-year-olds pounded down the curving hill into Tattenham Corner, Pasch was leading and looked as though he might be the sixth favorite to win the Derby since the War. But suddenly, smack in front of the grandstand, a mysterious horse shot out from behind, passed Pasch, passed Scottish Union, streaked up the hill to the wire, four lengths in front. It was Bois Roussel, a French-bred 20-to-i shot, owned by Hon. Peter Beatty, son of the late great Admiral Lord Beatty...
...least a generation modernistic esthetes and masterminds have been prophesying a speedy decline for the sentimental operas of the late Giacomo Puccini. Sensible critics,*however, have often pointed out that, though they may be bathetic, Puccini's operas are masterpieces of musical stagecraft, shaped by one of the surest hands that ever penned an aria. Meanwhile Tosca, La Boheme, and Madame Butterfly have been played incessantly wherever opera is given. During his lifetime, Composer Puccini made a fortune from them-a rare feat for a composer of serious music-and today they are still tops on the list...
...young ladies get each other's dance bouquets by mistake, thereupon pine and languish in silence (except for eight or ten solos and duets) along with the tongue-tied swains who sent them. Although first-nighters felt now & then that they were being sprayed with charm as though from an atomizer, much of the time The Two Bouquets saved itself by being smartly paced, lightly keyed, freshly mounted...