Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most famed is the ballad of "Ida, The Wayward Sturgeon"-a wretchedly voluptuous fish who said to herself: "There must be more to this sex-life than just swimming over each other's eggs." She put a badge on her right shoulder saying "I will share," paid a visit to Fanny Bored, the world's oldest mermaid, finally had an uncomfortable liaison on a barnacle bed, with an octopus...
...constitutional monarch (TIME, July 4, 1932). Last week His Majesty and curvesome Queen Rambai Barni startled Bangkok. Despite bickering in the Siamese Army which led to the sudden resignation of four high officers. Their Majesties announced serenely that next January they will leave Siam on a leisurely second visit...
...official delegates. At least one extra King will be there, lean, white-chinned Feisal of Irak, come to watch proceedings, coach his delegates from the sidelines, and renew his acquaintance with two of Britain's most photographed beauties: Lady Louis Mountbatten and the Marchioness of Milford Haven, who visited his arid kingdom unescorted last November in search of desert thrills. Many a European Premier not present last week is expected to pay at least one visit. Tickets to view the august assemblage were rarer than rubies last week. The grey & green assembly hall is normally the central court...
...exercise his great talent for building up a musical organization. Next season the New York Orchestra will give monthly concerts in Manhattan, tour around between times to smaller eastern cities which big expensive orchestras like the Boston, Philadelphia and New York Philharmonic no longer have time or money to visit. The New York Orchestra has no wealthy subsidizers. No one will tell Sokoloff what music he may or may not play. A player may be dismissed only when his colleagues vote him out for incompetence or flagrant immorality...
...silent husband. The child was thin, big-eyed, hopelessly sensitive. The ecstasies of childhood, as well as its cruel injustices, its disappointments and aching loneliness, seized him with unusual violence. Brightest moment in Poil de Carotte's summer vacation from boarding school comes when he goes to visit his uncle, who lets him swim in a cold brook and then leads him and his little cousin, wreaths of weeds in their hair, in a wild dance to the music of a concertina across broad sunny fields. At home the routine is monotonously wretched. His thieving older brother and dull...