Word: wolfing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lehmann, Melchior, and Schorr; Artur Bodansky conducting. The Boston Symphony Orchestra, assisted by the St. Cecilia Society and David McCloskey, will play the fol- lowing programme, to be broadcast Saturday evening at 8.15 P.M. over WEAF; Introduction to Solomon, by Handel; Evocation, by Loeffier; Prometheus, baritone solo, by Hugo Wolf; and Brahms' Fourth Symphony. Toscanini and the New York Philharmonic will play Beethoven's Overture to Fidelio, all three of the Leonora overtures, and Brahms' First Symphony, on Sunday afternoon over WABC
...goods business most of his life before he took over American Woolen. At the age of 18 he was traveling around the country in a big wagon filled with 20 trunks of merchandise. He went to McCall's in 1919, the year its publisher boasted that the "wolf wasn't at McCall's door, it was way inside." Without additional financing and by sheer merchandising ability he doubled sales in four years, pushed them to a peak of $14,000,000 in 1930. But neither he nor President Noah was willing to go into American Woolen...
...cave where he made friends with lions, leopards, bears and wolves. One day the emperor's huntsmen found him, dragged him away from his pets. On his way to trial Blasius cured a small boy who was choking on a fish bone. He also made a wolf return a pig it had stolen from an old woman. When Blasius was flung into a dungeon to starve, the woman gratefully brought him her pig. In 316 A. D. they beheaded Blasius after carding the flesh from his bones with an iron comb. Venerated increasingly by Roman Catholics, Blasius became...
...West; they are willing to admit that the man who is supposed to have lost their money for them is the only man who has much prospect of getting it back again. Samuel Insull did not pervert the systems of capitalistic finance, and he is not a big had wolf. Only in the crescendo does the theme become manifest, and only in a simon-pure capitalist like Mr. Insull do the real implications of capitalism become obvious and legible...
...Hugo Wolf: Madame Walska was her own sleek self in ropes of pearls and tight black velvet, cut to the waist behind. It was Ganna Walska whom Philadelphians turned out to see, regardless of her Second-Empire costumes. For them it was enough that she had overcome her stage-fright sufficiently to sing...