Word: tornadoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joke. In the last decade he has become a boisterous, likable candidate for the honor which awaits any artist who will seize and work mightily with the material of America. Benton has never painted a picture with the dramatic power of John Steuart Curry's Line Storm or Tornado. Critics have found his color and texture slapdash and harsh compared to that of Iowa's deliberate Grant Wood. But Benton's style, an exuberant combination of cartooning draftsmanship, affectionate realism and tightly organized, undulating pattern, is the most imaginative and distinct of the three...
Last Monday night a tornado from out of Kansas City shuffled into town, settled down at the Southland, and proceeded to agitate all the window shades, rugs, and sundry jitterbugs gathered therein. Agitation was headed by Lester Young, tenor sax for the tornado, commonly known as Count Basie's band...
Last week old Pianist Rosenthal, 75, celebrated the soth anniversary of this first U. S. appearance. On the exact date of the former concert, November 13, Oldster Rosenthal prowled up to a special gold-lacquered piano in Carnegie Hall, bowed curtly before a tornado of applause, then pounced upon the opening measures of Weber's Sonata op. 39. Concertgoers who had long marveled at Pianist Rosenthal's strength, speed and musical under-standing now marveled at his endurance. Many a great virtuoso of the keyboard has bitten the dust since 1888. But lion-jawed Moriz Rosenthal could still...
...Awarded its highest honor (life membership in the N. E. A.) to 19-year-old Virginia Sappington, a $70-a-month teacher in Piety Hill School, near Chetopa, Kans., who last March herded 21 children into a ditch and saved their lives before a tornado made splinters of the school building...
Those who expected a tenpin tornado were not disappointed. Although no one managed to get a perfect score, the Superb Beer keglers marked up 91 strikes, smashed their way to the biggest scoring jamboree in the history of the A.B.C.- a team total of 3,234 (640, 599, 712, 615, 668), which set a new A.B.C. record...