Word: almost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Theatre, is the fact that it is a revival--of the Maxwell Anderson of several years ago. More particularly, it recalls vividly to mind the kind of work the man was doing, at that time, and it leaves the discouraging impression that since then he has been losing himself almost as rapidly as hopelessly. Then he was a man who was full of faith and sureness, who could say about the deaths of Mio and Miriamme: "This is the glory of both men and women." Perhaps things like that were easier to say and believe a few years ago than...
This probably seems like a strange statement for Bach and Handel are almost in the old favors ite class. However, the popularity of Bach's keyboard music and Handel's Messiah has done as much to shut their other works off from the public as it has to make their names great. For example, of the Bach works which the Boston Symphony has done in the Friday and Saturday series them--two were arrangements of organ works and the other was the first performance in that series of the Sixth Brandcuburg Concerto...
...itinerant Continental Congress met in York while Washington was at Valley Forge 162 winters ago), York's people thronged the stores, spent more freely than in any winter since 1929. York's industries offered 10%, more jobs than last year. Payrolls were 20% larger. York had almost no relief problem at all. York was grinning with prosperity...
...Memphis, Probate Judge Sam Bates made public two wills: 1) "To my chauffeur I leave my cars as he has almost ruined them and I want him to have the satisfaction of finishing the job"; 2) "I want six of my creditors for pallbearers-they have carried me for so long they might as well finish...
Caught short with Stacy Hulse in the penalty box, Captain Coleman, Skip Ervin and Warren Winslow led a series of sorties which almost succeeded in scoring. Later when Stew Iglehart of St. Nicks was in the bastille, Bob Cox, assisted by Gordy McGrath, made the period's single score...