Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Farmer Laborite Francis Henry Shoemaker from Red Wing, Minn. rose to a question of personal privilege. He declared that every day the "members of the House, including the President of the U. S. are being exposed to a dangerous social disease because the laundry for the House is done by convicts suffering from syphilis." He was promptly shushed by a point of order...
Virgil Thomson was in Hartford, Conn., last week for the premiere of the opera he and Gertrude Stein wrote together in Paris. It is called Four Saints in Three Acts although it has some 30 saints, a prelude and four acts. It was given in the new Avery Memorial wing of the Wadsworth Athenaeum and sponsored by "The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music." This New England organization is headed by A. Everett ("Chick") Austin Jr., a rich young Hartforder who directs the Hartford Museum and knew Virgil Thomson at Harvard when that young composer wore kid gloves to scull...
...Beatty Mellon's son was upped to the presidency of Mellon National Bank, it was clear that Uncle Andrew had made his choice. In the House of Mellon are many mansions but Richard King ("Dick") Mellon at 34 has already moved into most of them. In the financial wing he is a director of Union Trust Co., which far outshines the family bank in national prestige. He also is president of Mellbank Corp., which controls a group of some 20 smaller Pennsylvania banks. In the industrial wing he is a director of Aluminum Co., Gulf Oil, Koppers...
...varying saccharinity, printed on special blanks, the telegraph people are prepared to welcome the onslaught. The absent-minded swain need only choose between such lightsome ditties as, "At miles between us we can laugh, our hearts entwined by telegraph" and the more Victorian, "Cupid's arrows swift and true wing my love...
...improvement of Tenor Lauritz Melchior since Conductor Arturo Toscanini rehearsed him in Bayreuth summer before last; the quickened inspiration of Conductor Artur Bodanzky. During the War New York preferred to do without German opera. It took the conservative Met a good ten years to build up its German wing to something like pre-War strength. During that time a new generation of Wagner enthusiasts grew up, to learn that the operas are not dull because they are long, that the Ring's complicated plot and hundred-odd motifs are well worth studying since they build up into such...