Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were still plenty of pictures to make old Academicians feel at home. As he has many times before, Frederick J. Waugh won the Palmer Memorial Prize for Marine painting with another of his standard scenes of breaking waves and rocks. There were at least half a dozen other pictures by other wave painters exactly like...
When Ethel Leginska decided ten years ago that she would be a conductor, musicians and laymen regarded her as an eccentric, a publicity seeker who was ambitious beyond her sex. Leginska pioneered valiantly if erratically, proved that women could wave a baton as capably as they could play the harp or violin. Last week, by coincidence, two lady conductors turned ambitious backs in Manhattan's Town Hall...
...office coats and go out to lunch. Suddenly for no apparent reason one trader sprang forward to the ring, announced he would sell cotton for 11.80? per lb. - 20 points below the price at which that staple has been virtually pegged by the Government for seven months. A violent wave of selling broke over the market, uncovering nests of stop orders. The price fell 10 to 20 points on each transaction. May contracts sank to 10.25?. Brokers snouted themselves hoarse as orders to sell poured in from the South, from Europe, from the Orient. Near-panic spread...
...more handful of scheming brain-workers hold all the rest of us at bay? Are we any more inured to squeaks than they are? No, this thing must be nipped in the bud before we find Housemasters stealing everyone's furniture for their own apartments! The Vagabond proposes to wave this dirty linen from every housetop in Cambridge until the overweening outrage is set aright and men can again study in Widener with some degree of dignity and confidence...
Ralph L. Kirkpatrick '30, leading harpsichord artist of the country, will appear as a soloist to play music by Bach on the stringed instrument for which it was written. As conductor Malcolm H. Holmes '28 will wave the baton...