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Almost in unison last week the country's first four symphony orchestras sounded the overture to a new music season. Limousines lined up for blocks before the concert halls in Boston. New York. Philadelphia, Chicago. Dowagers and their escorts pushed their way impatiently through the sidewalk crowds. Music students, shabby and excited, ran up the steps to their top-gallery seats. Out of the wings like ball-players leaving their dugouts came the big league orchestra players. Oboes sounded A. A buzz of tuning and the big-league captains appeared-Chicago's square old Frederick Stock; Boston...
...monkeys, apes, men) are the only creatures who have both binocular and stereoscopic vision. "Only in man, of all the mammals, does there seem to be continuous easily kept, binocular and stereoscopic vision. Even in the human child, however, the eyes do not as a rule move in perfect unison with each other till about three months after birth, because stereoscopic vision, in the history of life on this planet, is an extremely recent appearance. The same fact explains the ready loss-of-binocularity (cross-eyes) in many persons as the result of optical errors (eye-strain). ... I should...
Right arms extended, commander & crew recited in unison the Fascist oath...
...Tussaud's famed waxworks museum, three Communists splattered red paint all over a figure of Handsome Adolf and hung a sign round its neck: "Hitler the Mass Murderer." Arrested, they sat quietly in police court, then jumped to their feet and bawled in unison: "DOWN WITH HITLER! DOWN WITH FASCISM!" Six policemen tackled them at once and wrestled all over the floor...
...Mickey is a mouse but he acts like a man. He has a sack-like hound and a cat. They and the incidental animals and things contrast with Mickey's seriousness, act with fantastic playfulness. A swarm of canary chicks will escape Mickey's cage, light in unison on a table. Suddenly they all go into a dance, do a double shuffle, a stationary skating motion and bump fundaments by twos. Audiences roar with astonishment. Mickey's cat and dog chase one another into a pair of drawers on a line. The drawers stand...