Word: ultras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...places in the world, none is more popularly associated with singing than the bathroom. Last week, grand opera reached the bathroom. The curtain of Berlin's Second State Opera House, rising for the world premiere of Neues vom Tage (The Day's News), latest opus of ultra-modern Composer Paul Hindemith, revealed Primadonna Crete Stueckgold seated in a tub with real-looking soapsuds up to her chin, warbling about the delights of a hot bath...
Lord Privy Seal "Jim" Thomas, domestic, fun loving, is the most colorful character in the new Cabinet. Famed is his Welsh-plus-Cockney accent, his fondness for smoking room stories. Londoners chuckled last week recalling the occasion when as Colonial Secretary in 1924 he was anxiously interviewed by ultra Conservative, fussbudget Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks...
...eclipse, but also to measure the absolute brightness and the color index of the Corona for comparison with the results of the previous eclipses. In addition to this, the expedition is equipped with a variety of lenses for rapid photography of the outer reaches of the Corona. A special Ultra Violet camera is being taken from the Mt. Wilson Observatory, which has a silvered quartz lense especially designed for the purpose of photographing this phenomenon in invisible light of too high frequency to effect...
...School of Paris from 1910 to 1928. This collection includes painting, sculpture and examples of the decorative arts. The paintings are a logical supplement to the loan exhibition of French Painting now on display at the Fogg Art Museum. In scope the former ranges from comparatively conservative to ultra-modern...
...this the realist has no answer except a sneer, or if he is ultra sophisticated, a gentle smile accompanied by the formation of a perfect ring of smoke...