Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grand River Dam, last week held its first mayoralty election. Candidates were a sad-eyed grocer named Mrs. Vera Silar, who stood for law & order, and a buxom ex-cowgirl named Billy Baker, who stood for fun & frolic. Idea was to give each boss woman 30 days to try out her ideas, then incorporate under whichever regime Disney liked best. When Disney's Commercial Club tried to limit the ballot to property owners, dam hands rebelled, gave Cowgirl Baker first whack at the job, 603 votes to 201. Chirped she: "We'll make this the best town...
...Tannhauser" Entrance of the Guests into the WartburgWagner *Scherzo from the "Eroica" Symphony, No. 3 Beethoven *Sandman's Song and Evening Prayer, from "Hansel and Gretel" Humperdinck *Seventh Slavonic Dance Dvorak *Second Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt *Pavane for a Dead Infants Ravel *Prelude to "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg" Wagner *Wine, Woman and Song" Waltzes Strauss *"Deep River" Arranged by Jacchia "Up the Street" March Morse *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...Tannhauser," Entrance of the Guests into the WarburgWagner *Scherzo from the "Eroica" Symphony, No. 3 Beethoven *Sandman's Song and Evening Prayer, from "Hansel and Gretel Humperdinck *Seventh Slavonic Dance Dvorak *Second Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt *Prelude to "Die Meistersinger von Nurnbert" Wagner *Pavane for a Dead Infanta Ravel *"Wine, Woman, and Song," Waltzes Stranss *"Deep Rive" Arranged by Jacchia *"Up the Street," March Morse *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...Northeast Quarter" of Berlin, where tenements are tall and rations short, a worn old woman last year passed her 70th birthday in public oblivion. Ten years before, as one of the most powerful living woman artists, she had been honored with a big retrospective exhibition. Five years before, she had been director of the Graphic Arts department of the Berlin Academy. But the canons of Nazi art were such that, though she continued to work, Kathe Kollwitz had no more exhibitions in Germany after...
...Porte, Ind., a young woman clerk in the State employment office impatiently insisted that a young male applicant show his social security number. The applicant peeled jacket, undid shirt, showed her the number tattooed across his chest...