Word: wooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brilliant accompanying score and furnished an announcer, John Martin, who gives a running account of the proceedings without sounding like a hysteric with crumbs in his throat. The net result is an entertainment which not only makes the Dark Continent cease to seem dull but makes many Holly-wood A pictures soporific by comparison. Best bit part: Pygmy kibitzer sneering at the bridge building...
...behave in general more like swing fans at a jam jag than ordinary concertgoers. On some nights the floor is so packed, the air so heavy with smoke and heat that faintings and hurried exits are common. Since the series began in 1895, weed-whiskered old Sir Henry Joseph Wood has conducted every concert. When he and Concert Agent Robert Newman at first insisted on including new and unfamiliar compositions in their programs, critics praised them but insisted that that kind of thing would not go down with the untutored public. Wood ignored their advice, continued to give his audiences...
...gave recitals up & down the country, conducted opera, spent a period as a singing teacher. In the 44 years since the Promenade Concerts began he has done more conducting than any living man and has probably trained more orchestral players. Out of season he finds time to do wood carvings and carpentry and produce professional-looking landscape paintings. When the concert season is on he becomes a passion of punctuality, spends hours over his scores, rehearses and performs with demon-like energy. Each morning he solemnly practices his baton before a mirror...
...linking the navigable waters of the Kalamazoo River with Lake Erie. Only 22 miles long, it was the first railroad west of Schenectady. A pair of horses hitched in tandem pulled the original two-story, twelve-passenger day coach or "pleasure car." When addition of a 20-horsepower, wood-burning locomotive failed to pull Erie & Kalamazoo through ten years of hard times, it was sold to satisfy creditors...
...Military tackle group is really their strong point. Litozo, at right, weighs in at 203, and Stella, at left, tips the balances at 211. Even the substitutes are both experienced and beefy, as is most everybody connected with the Army. On the defense Coach Bill Wood used both the five and the six men line at different times against Columbia...