Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps a commonplace, but in any case worthy of repetition, that Mr. Monteux is particularly successful in music of or relating to the dance; that he finds grateful any bit which he can visualize. Conspicuous was yesterday's program, headed by the Seventh Symphony aptly, we think, dubbed by Wagner, "apotheosis of the dance"; and continuing through more specific apotheoses as conceived by Dukas and Strauss. Conspicuous also was Brahms, conspicuously dull and and diffuse, the one dry spot on an otherwise attractive program...
...Justice Robert P. Wagner's Extraordinary Term of the Supreme Court (of N.Y.) at Wnite Plains...
While the bitterness of counsel has been almost unparalleled, Justice Wagner has been able to hold the bucking legal broncos well in hand. He is the calm, confident, dominating figure of the court room. He handles the lawyers much as a school teacher would handle unruly primary children. While authoritative in his manner, he is not autocratic or haughty. His main endeavor is to preserve order and obedience, and to have the proceedings possess the dignity of a trial rather than resemble the wranglings in a barroom...
...point in the trial, leaning forward from the bench, Justice Wagner emphatically pointed his finger at a man in the front row of spectators...
...Outside," said the Justice sharply, his finger kept pointed at the man, "That gentleman right there. Leave the room! " Without a word the man scrambled to his feet and hurried from the court. Justice Wagner refused to enlighten reporters as to his reasons. Whatever the outcome of the case, one thing is sure-it is being proved that a man, no matter how rich, no matter how influential, no matter how generously endowed with astute counsel, must bow to the yoke of the Law. Over the portals of the court house where the case is being tried, appears...