Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After lunch the King wanted a smoke badly, but could not light up, according to the protocol that rules his conduct until he had been toasted. The Prime Minister tapped a bell, and, in Veuve Cliquot '28 the guests toasted first the King then the Queen, then both. Then the King lit up before a waiter could get to him with a match (the Queen does not smoke in public), and listened while Prime Minister King reminded the diners: "Today as never before, the throne has become the centre of our national life." Stammering slightly His Majesty spoke...
...astronomical observatory, perched serenely on its remote mountain top and housing almost priceless equipment and records, should be-and is-among the safest places in the world. The steel dome and frame conduct lightning harmlessly to the ground. Steel and concrete cannot be set afire by a careless smoker. The cleared area around an observatory site would stop a forest fire short of damage to the instruments. A telescope anchored through concrete is practically earthquake-proof. Windstorms and hail are trifling annoyances...
George W. Phillips '39, president of the Glee Club, will conduct the second Yard concert tonight on the steps of Widener Library at 7 o'clock, over an international radio hook...
France. Across the Channel in Paris a speech by Premier Edouard Daladier, who has virtually taken over the conduct of foreign relations from appeasement-seeking Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, got unanimous cheers in the Chamber of Deputies the like of which has not been heard in that dissension-ridden House for many a month. After speaking of immense mobilizations in neighboring countries, M. Daladier scornfully cried...
...Rumanians and Swiss to hire the New York Philharmonic-Symphony for a concert or two apiece of their own national tunes. Nobody else was interested. But there were enough Norwegians, Brazilians, Poles, Rumanians and Swiss to make a crowd. Aging Walter Damrosch and youthful John Barbirolli were drafted to conduct a concert apiece in the Fair's blimplike Hall of Music. Only really impressive bit of music up to last week was a special Wagner cycle put on not at the Fair Grounds but at the Metropolitan Opera House, and as the World's Fair entered its third...