Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flegenheimer business offices, finally raided by New York police in 1931, were as complicated as they were safe. Behind armored doors and bullet-proof glass peepholes, two characters named Dick Wolf and George Yarlasvetsky ran what purported to be an automobile financing company on the third floor, but spent most of their time tending the beer syndicate's 100-man payroll and general bookkeeping on the floor above...
...Glike (W) defeated Cann (E), 6-4, 6-2; Williams (W) defeated Brooks (E), 6-4, 6-4; Poet (W) defeated Brandwene (E), 6-1, 6-1; Bolles (W) defeated Shakleton (E), 6-3, 7-5; Burbank (W) defeated Trevelyan (E), 1-6, 6-1, 6-3; Wolf (E) defeated Weber...
...Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, London, has been working at Tel ad-Duwair, southwest of Jerusalem. Anciently called Lachish, this site was a fortress in the Kingdom of Judah. Nebuchadnezzar stormed it when he invaded Palestine. Earlier, King Sennacherib of Assyria stopped there before he swept down like the wolf on the fold and before the Lord, through Isaiah, said: "I will send a blast upon him" and killed his 185,000 troops (II Kings, 19: 7, 35). What Dr. Starkey found at Lachish last week were twelve scraps of pottery, apparently from the archives of the city, dating from...
...level also were tombs which had sunk through the silt from the Eighth Level: wooden coffins with their skeletons undisturbed, buried in graves lined by mud bricks. In these tombs were rosettes and beads of gold (the most ancient fabricated gold ever discovered) ; weapons, seals, vessels of obsidian; a wolf's head of electrum (gold & silver alloy); shell beads and such semiprecious stones as carnelian, turquoise and lapis lazuli. One tomb contained 25,000 beads which the diggers assumed were once part of a single beadwork jacket...
Ernest Newman started out to be an Indian Civil Servant and ended up by being Britain's foremost musical critic. When this London musicologist publishes a new biography, his fellow critics are inclined to accept his findings as sound, scholarly, vividly final. To his works on Gluck, Wolf, Richard Strauss, Elgar, Beethoven, Bach, Berlioz and Wagner, Ernest Newman, at 66, last week added his last word, on Franz Liszt...