Word: thoughts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Anglican controversy, Father Noel today is an accepted church institution, leader of a small but articulate left-wing group called "The Church Militant" and, in politics, tending toward Trotskyite communism. To non-religious communists, Father Noel's views are puzzling. Once a Russian addressed a meeting of Noelites, thought he was speaking their theological language, was aghast to find that they disagreed violently with everything he said, particularly when he mentioned "Christian myths." Publication of Father Noel's Life of Jesus*, over which he labored for 30 years and which has left him blind, should clear...
When Erna Sack, a comely blonde stenographer in Berlin, saved her pfennigs to study voice, she thought she was a mezzo-soprano. So did her first teacher, although a subsequent teacher lightened her voice so that, when Conductor Bruno Walter heard it, he gave her small lyric soprano parts at the Charlottenburg Opera. After her accidental discovery of C in altissimo, Soprano Sack perfected her coloratura. When, as a member of the able Dresden Opera, she sang in the world première of Richard Strauss's Schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman), and later in a revival...
...deck high above them. "Good-by," "Don't let a Jap bomb get you," "Take care of yourself.'' Through milling travelers on deck stewards wove their way, intoning, "All ashore that's going ashore." Ninety passengers aboard the Dollar Line's President Jackson thought last week they were bound on a long voyage from Seattle to the Orient...
...Somme so badly that he was invalided out of further service, went down to South Africa (which one branch of his family had helped settle three centuries ago) to recuperate. He stayed 15 years, working on cattle ranches, ending as owner of a dairy farm near Johannesburg; had no thought of writing until five years ago, when, bursting with Boer legends, he returned to London, ground some of his material into London magazine serials, used the remainder in the present novel. Tall, mustached, handsome, he would like (having visited Manhattan) to divide his time between England...
...that's the way Ed Wynn is. He'll say some of his funniest lines in his most hysterical manner, yet he'll be thinking serious thought all the while, "Hooray For What?" his new show, now playing at the Colonial, is crammed full of delicious gags. Nevertheless, every funny line is an effective jab against war. Ed, as Chuckles, the native inventor of strange gases is always wondering what it's all about. "I hear they found a Spanish soldier in the Spanish army," he shricks. "This antuggling must be stopped...