Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many people went to look at her nakedness in Thaïs, to watch her lascivious dancing in Salome. But Mary Garden drew as many operagoers with the emotion in her voice as she did with the perfection of her body. Even her most rabid critics granted her genius for the way she captured the fragile, tenuous spirit of Debussy's Mélisande...
...time that the new concessionaires would not cut down on the number of students employed on these stands and that, as a matter of fact, the new system would be mutually more profitable to the H.A.A. and the undergraduates who desired to earn money on Saturday afternoons rather than watch an entire football game. Such mutual benefit has most certainly not been the case...
Student workers were not allowed to watch even a part of the game, but all were forced to remain at their stations even when trade was at its lightest. In some cases, it was reported that professionals were imported to take the place of students, thereby violating the pledge of the company, when it was given the contract...
...Baton Rouge, Senator Huey Long sat in a purple & gold-draped box to watch Louisiana State lose its first game of the season against Tulane, an institution which the Kingfish has hated and despised ever since it refused to give him an honorary degree. With three minutes to play and Louisiana State a touchdown ahead, Tulane's Simons caught a lateral pass, ran through the whole Louisiana State team for the score that...
...resident of Nashville, President Hill will soon move to Louisville. His first major task will be to air-condition L. & N. trains.* As for streamlining, he plans to "stand on the sidelines and watch others move." Slight and grey-haired, at 56 President Hill looks less like a major railroad executive than the schoolmaster he once set out to be. A banker on the side, he is married, has two children, will get twice as much ($40,500) in his new job as in his old. Negro Cook Humphrey Bowling of "No. 99," the president's private car, rates...