Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason that many people went to the Salzburg Music Festival in Austria this year was to watch the excitement that would occur if the Festival had to be called off. Adolf Hitler, whose Bayreuth Festival was no great shakes, did everything he could to spoil Austria's show. He refused to let Richard Strauss, one of the Salzburg Festival founders, conduct a cycle of his operas, grudgingly allowed him to sit in the audience when Clemens Krauss led Elektra. He nearly ruined a performance of Tristan by yanking German Tenor Hans Grahl out of the cast at the last...
...composed one of the most thoughtful and fair-minded journalistic inquiries into the Depression and such remedies as the Hoover Administration was applying. Last year Ross acted as president of the Gridiron Club. For years he had helped to stage-manage its shows, with the aid of a stop watch to see that no skit, no song lagged beyond its allotted time. Today he has one son at Dartmouth, another at Georgetown...
...open Rolls Royce. His stool is No. 1 in the bookmakers' line. Indefatigable, taciturn, phenomenally quick at mental arithmetic, "Long Tom" Shaw is considered so shrewd that his confreres often station their assistants near his slate to observe his odds. When they cannot get in close, they watch from a distance with field glasses...
...will let her husband know how many seconds he has before Endeavour can cross the line. Says she: "If our teamwork is perfect we should hit the starting line at full speed just as the gun flashes. . . . Yes, you may be sure I won't wear trousers. ... I watch for the flash to start my watches as it takes several seconds for the sound to reach us. I'm so busy watching for the flash that I never see anything of the actual start...
...relief organizations function properly we won't have to watch the Communists. The reason why they gather a following is because they are the only ones who will listen to a man's story and try to do something about it. They're sympathetic. A crowd will gather around while one of them talks but just let a rumor get around that jobs can be had at some other place and pretty soon the crowd will be gone...