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...Germany, from symphonic composer to drummer in a town band, must be a member of the Musikkammer. The Kammer fixes and assures collection of composers' royalties, decrees what type of music shall be played and who shall or shall not be permitted to play it. Securely under its thumb are the activities of Germany's world-renowned opera houses, music conservatories, symphony orchestras. Periodically the Musikkammer makes recommendations to Chancellor Hitler himself who bestows upon deserving Nazi musicians the title of Professor (now an honorary designation without academic significance). Membership in the Musikkammer (and hence participation in Germany...
Tiddledy-winkers went down to inglorious defeat before the Hoyden College girls, who winked their way to victory in one of the most bitterly contested tipples of the century. Crimson tiddlers were badly handicapped with the loss of Tid Fingers who recently blistered and cramped his pitching thumb from turning pages, while studying for his hour exams...
...along the frontiers as Jews, Catholics and Schuschnigg supporters were caught trying to escape. Typical of the thoroughness with which Nazi adherents had prepared for "the day" was the fact that 24 hours after Nazification the Nazi guard at the remotest frontier post was armed with a fully tabulated, thumb-indexed book of many thousand names on the Nazi black list, which he checked against the passports of those wishing to cross. Most sensational arrest in Jewish financial circles was that of retired Banker Baron Louis von Rothschild, to whose castle the Duke of Windsor went after the Abdication (TIME...
...find, in a remarkable conception of old Peking, George Barbier dressed up as Kublai Khan. Historically, Kublai Khan was China's strong man, who conquered all of China & ruled more subjects than he could count. Producer Goldwyn's Cathay is pretty thoroughly under the well-manicured thumb of Basil Rathbone, a saturnine, bewhiskered minister of state. And Producer Goldwyn's Marco Polo finds career enough for any Venetian in naïve, unkissed Princess Kukachin, with her wide-set eyes, parted, quivering lips, two-story hairdo...
...more often succeed in bringing to life the "fighting" forces of wind, weight, water and light which he feels in landscape. Marin works over each picture with every watercolorist's trick, "scrubbing in" colors with the brush, tipping the paper for even floods of wash, using his thumb, rags, blotters to get the effect he wants...