Word: wave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wonder children watched snowy-white angels float down from the sky; an old witch ride madly astride her broomstick, pausing only to tickle the nose of a raggedy boy waiting to be fattened and baked into gingerbread. The climax came when his yellow-haired sister saved him with the wave of a magic juniper-branch and a hocus-pocus formula, when together they pushed the witch into the oven stoked for them. For children no moment of the performance approaches this supreme one in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel...
Happily, the second act was much better. Miss Cowl as Viola strode about very bravely, and even if she did wave her hands about with her usual abandon, she was very pleasant. It is true that she was a thoroughly feminine Cesario, but she is so accomplished an actress that the distortion was unnoticed. Maria as played by Jessie Ralph was happily an oldish and slightly vulgar wench, and hence a very fitting companion for the raucous Sir Toby...
...spoke blunt Gottfried R. Treviranus, Minister Without Portfolio in the cabinet of Chancellor Bruning, to cheering crowds assembled last week before the steps of the Reichstag. Six hours later the protests started, piled up in wave upon wave of outraged French and Polish anguish to a holocaust of denunciation...
Receiving Sets. Two large groups, Bell Telephone Laboratories and the General Electric-Westinghouse combination associated with R. C. A., are not yet ready to sell the television receiving sets which they are perfecting. But for the last three months, Western Television Corp. (Chicago), Jenkins Television Corp. (Jersey City), Short Wave & Television Laboratories (Boston) have been preparing sets for market. Within 30 days after the opening of the Daily News's station, Western Television reported last week it would have 1,200 sets distributed in the Chicago vicinity, selling at from $125 to $200 each...
...wave of the attack actually captured the British mobilization warehouse at the edge of the town, held it for three hours against all the machinery of modern warfare. Only at the stone fortress of Peshawar were the tribesmen turned. Commented the London Times: "One other lesson deserves the careful attention of the Imperial General Staff. Whatever may be the effect of bombing airplanes in open countries like Irak where vast stretches of ground are open as a cricket pitch, it would seem that punitive action from the air has lost its terrors to the Pathan. Against mobile and intelligent opposition...