Word: volga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vocal Club is presenting "Pop Goes the Weasel" by Schaffer, "Song of the Volga Boatmen," "Song of the Vagabonds" by Friml, "John Peel" arranged by Andrews, "Johnny Harvard" and "Fair Harvard...
Tonight the Banjo Club will play "Officer of the Day," by Hall, and a Football Medley, arranged by Rice; while the Vocal Club will render "Pop Goes the Weasel," "Song of the Volga Boatmen," "John Peel," and "Fair Harvard. "Espana," by Waldteufel, and "Pizicatti," by Delibes will be played by the Mandolin Club...
...woman who by choice sits in the balcony. She had known Koussevitzky when he wore an ill-fitting Prince Albert, a shaggy mustache, high wing collars. She had stepped out of her class and married him, given him money to form an orchestra, tour the provinces and down the Volga. Exiled from Russia she helped finance him in Western Europe, became his shrewd self-effacing partner in a music-publishing concern which has sponsored the works of Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff. Natalya Koussevitzky is rightfully proud of her husband's U. S. achievements. He has polished Boston...
...bring out ever new mutations, he shocks with electricity the seeds of apples, watermelons, almonds, squash, plums. Oranges and grapefruit developed by him are grown in the "Soviet Florida" on the Black Sea. Tireless in his old age, he works now on tobacco to be grown on the lower Volga...
...soldiers row a girl and her executioner to an island in the Volga; though they carry the spades to dig her grave their conversation is almost friendly. A wisecracking peasant sits in a doctor's reception room, makes ducks and drakes of the doctor's prescriptions. Because of the housing shortage, a man and a girl go through a form of marriage in order to share a room; though the man keeps carefully to his side of the bargain, the girl finds there is no such thing as a purely business arrangement...