Word: wove
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parade wove through snowy drifts and up to the reviewing stand where oaths of honor were taken. Germany led the goo athletes; French, Austrians, Swiss, Canadians, Czechoslovaks, Mexicans, British, Belgians, Argentines. Scandinavians, and 26 U. S. delegates came after. As the U. S. group were swearing themselves amateurs the storm passed and the sun popped out. Attendants hurried to the hockey rink and busily shooed off the snow. Spectators attended to snowflakes that had sifted down their necks. Two hockey teams in snug tights and jerseys warmed up and stood tense for the face-off. The puck was thrown...
...being Marguerita. Washington clapped the principals, who were really not principals at all but just part of Director Rosing's scheme, clapped the Jones sets, the gabbling street mob that crowded in on the dying Valentin, the conducting of Frank St. Leger* who with a small orchestra wove Gounod's share of it all into a rich, seamless fabric. Critics used big words-big words, capitalized-Art, Beauty, Intelligence. They endorsed just as emphatically the Madame Butterfly and The Marriage of Figaro that rounded out the Washington run, prophesied a big future for the new American Company whose...
...Midsummer Night's Dream. The U. S., home of the huge, agreed that Max Reinhardt, Austrian, was the master of spectacle when he wove the wonder of The Miracle in 1924. Disapproving this restrictive distinction, he recently closed his Berlin and Vienna theatres, and bundled actors, scenery, costumes, to Manhattan to show his skill at smaller things. His first production was far from small, but it was delicate and true. Perhaps he started on a spacious scale in order to ease great expectations gradually down to subtler things...
...calculated horror Prince Felix Yussupov, cousin by marriage to Tsar Nicholas II, tells in a book Rasputin* (ras-poo-teen), published in the U. S. last week, how the peasant monk wove a "tangle of dark intrigue, egotistical self-seeking, hysterical madness and vainglorious pursuit of power, which wrapped the throne in an impenetrable web and isolated the monarch from his people"; how in greasy boots he walked over the imperial parquets; how he gained almost complete mastery over the Tsar and Tsarina; how Prince Yussupov and the Grand Duke Dimitri, murdered him in an attempt to deliver the royal...
Over Hartford, Conn., last week an airplane coursed, wove figure 8's, glided and banked faultlessly. It coasted to earth, rose again; alighted again, rose a third time. A few eyes that strained towards its flight were sycophantic; many were worried, most were proud. For operating the plane was Governor John H. Trumbull, first governor, as far as is known, to do a solo airplane flight...