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Word: weekes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James W. Fesler, who could hear the weekly broadcast much better in their own front parlor (in the studio the music sounds almost as if it were being played under a blanket), make special weekly train trips to Manhattan to see the Maestro conduct in the fiery flesh. Two Buffalo newlyweds recently made Studio 8-H their Niagara Falls. One Texan chartered a plane to get there. Refugees from Central Europe spend their first two cents on U. S. soil to stamp a letter to NBC asking for passes. Bootleg passes retail at $25 a pair. Last week, when Toscanini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Toscaninnies | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...city, it had big appetites. In an average year its 200,000 citizens ate 12,967 suckling pigs, drank 382,578 barrels of beer, 473,339 barrels of wine. Even more impressive than the way they ate and drank was the way the Viennese waltzed. Every night in the week, a quarter of the entire population whirled themselves dizzy in Vienna's dance halls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Waltz Kings | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...time ruled two men with more power than the Emperor himself. They did not make Vienna's laws, but they wrote its waltzes. These two men were Johann Strauss, father & son, subjects of a joint biography (Johann Strauss, Father and Son - Greystone Press; $3.25) published last week by Viennese Exile H. E. Jacob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Waltz Kings | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Depression I finally knocked the props from under Mr. Eaton, washed away his industrial controls. By 1932 he was left with little except his Cleveland securities house, Otis & Co. But Mr. Eaton still rode to hounds. And last week he rode off again to the financial wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Eaton to the Wars | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...last week the Eaton-Norris army had slowed its firing, and Mr. Willkie's patience had been exhausted. To the Sunday papers he sent a statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Eaton to the Wars | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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