Word: departing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prime musical cause of Salzburg's 1936 prosperity is Conductor Arturo Toscanini, who snubbed Nazi Bayreuth in Salzburg's favor three seasons ago. When the Italian maestro, still hotly anti-Nazi, learned of plans to broadcast Salzburg events to Germany, he seethed & stormed, vowed to depart and never return if any performance under his baton was sent across the border. Last week while Salzburgers were hearing a familiar, first-rate Toscanini performance of Beethoven's Fidelio and a familiar, even better Toscanini version of Die Meistersinger, cafe talk was all of how the grey little conductor...
...month depart from sound Republican doctrine. His cure was not to stop government spending, but to stop government borrowing. "In essence," declared he, "the system we demand is this: Tax everybody on the amount of money that he spends. We are all spenders. We must buy or die. The more we have to spend, the more we will spend. Hence, those who spend most will pay the most in taxes for the maintenance of government...
Last week many a Californian journeyed to the Theosophical Society's estate near Ojai where Krishnamurti lives in a hut. Lately returned from a lecture tour of Mexico and South America, the abdicated Messiah delivered the Society's triennial series of talks, will soon depart for more talks in Holland where the Society owns an estate at Ommen...
...said to have been weathered in the reigns of the 62nd, the 83rd, the 103rd and the 122nd. It was Emperor Meiji, grandfather of the present Emperor, who dealt masterfully with the insurgence of Japanese commoners when they vigorously although reverently beseeched that Imperial Poem Reading should depart from the immemorial tradition that no poems were ever read to the Son of Heaven except those composed by himself, members of the Imperial Family and great personages of State. Read the historic petition of 1873 to the Emperor Meiji in part: "It is true that there is a difference...
...sufficiently violent to cause these supporting beams to slip out of their slings would be all that is required to detach the floors and precipitate glass flowers, meteorites, and pale-ontological exhibits into the basement. In any case Geology students working in the Museum have long been advised to depart from the promises at the first rumblings...