Word: wals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles H. Fiske, 3d, Scholarship, providing a year's study at Trinity Col-has been awarded to John Cotton Wal-Cott '34, of Cambridge, Mass. He prepared at St. Paul's School. He will graduate magna cum laude in English. He was literary editor of the Advocate, Class Odist, president of Signet Society, and held a Harvard College Scholarship...
...year-old Hungarian schoolgirl when she first saw Vaslav Nijinsky dance. Sergei Diaghilev had taken the Russian Ballet to Budapest. Karsavina was with the company. So was Kshessinskaya, the Tsar's favorite who had an imperial retinue of her own, wore diamonds and emeralds the size of wal nuts. But it was Nijinsky who made the Hungarian girl decide against the dramatic career her actress mother had planned for her. She saw him in Sylphides and said a prayer: "Thank you, my God, that I have lived in this century to have seen Nijinsky dance." Her ambition...
...flying boat was a twin-motored Dornier Wal* named Monsoon, of the type which Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau thrice flew from Germany to the U. S. Carrying a crew of four and a Luft Hansa director, the Monsoon flew up from British Gambia, headed west by south, caught the radio beacon of the Westphalen. Smack on her course after six hours the Monsoon picked up the floating airdrome in the middle of the Atlantic. Unlike an aircraft carrier, or a huge mid-ocean landing field such as the U. S. Public Works Administration has been asked to finance...
...appointed for the march on the House of Commons, uniformed police and plainclothesmen from Scotland Yard quietly converged upon the Workers' Movement headquarters in Russell Square near the British Museum. The detectives entered the dingy headquarters building, burst in upon "Wal" Hannington who was talking with a newshawk. Unresisting, Hannington submitted to arrest for inciting a mutiny, was jailed without bail in Bow Street station...
From Montreal last week the Groenland-Wal flew to Ottawa, headed toward Detroit. She arrived there at the end of a towrope after being forced down on Lake St. Clair by a broken pump. After visiting Chicago, the ship's next destination was the Pacific Coast. Despite some-what half-hearted denials by Capt. von Gronau, it appeared certain that he would carry on along the approximate route flown last year by the Lindberghs from Alaska to Siberia, the Kuvile Islands, Tokyo, that he would continue around the world to home...