Word: thumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...street, a symphony conductor is somebody who flops his arms in a sweating frenzy while others do the job. His are the most spectacular tantrums the music world allows, the greatest adulation and the creamiest financial reward it bestows. Yet he scrapes not, neither does he toot, thump nor sing. How does anybody know whether he can even read music? Yet at the end of the concert it is he who takes the bows, not the laboring instrumentalists over whom he presides. Is his a job, or a racket...
With production restrictions off, with the demand for rubber declining, prices dropped with a thump far below the cost of production. In 1932 rubber sold as low as 2 3/8? per Ib. It has bounced continually upward with only one rebound since the International Rubber Regulation Committee, representing producers of 98% of the world's rubber supply, came into existence in June 1934. In the past year and a half the price has doubled, springing over the 25?-per-lb. mark last week for the first time since March 1929, despite the fact that the International Rubber Regulation Committee...
...before the eyes of the audience. In robust defiance of the "pusher" (man with the blueprints), four steelworkers ride on the ball attached to the crane-hook. Only flaws in this extraordinary feat of artistic naturalism are that when the beams (actually wood) strike something they emit a hollow thump instead of a ringing clank, and that when the inevitable victim falls from the crane to his death, a ludicrous dummy is seen tumbling against the backdrop...
...back two generations. Margaret Leamy, relict of one of Charles Stewart Parnell's few henchmen who stuck by him after his disaster, has recorded her memories of those gloomily exciting days. Her book is written with a kind of breathless broguishness that may make Irish hearts thump. To others it will be no more exciting than looking into a family album at faded and old-fashioned pictures...
...hidden in closets and behind chairs. A large electric automobile from Mamma and Papa and a bicycle from Grandmamma were hard to conceal, but it took 20 minutes of scrabbling to uncover a gold-headed riding crop from His Majesty, "Uncle David." Later, Princess Elizabeth used the crop to thump the fat sides of her favorite white pony, Peggy. In the afternoon there was a children's party in the tiny playhouse, gift of the people of Wales in 1932. Princess Elizabeth made the tea and buttered the toast herself...