Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manuela von Meinhardis (Hertha Thiele). The principal (Emilia Onda) tries to turn out steel women to match Prussia's iron men by bundling the little girls in heavy uniforms, marching them in columns up & down long winding stairs, starving, shadowing, suppressing them. At night they weep for loneliness; they exploit any teacher's kindness into a schoolgirl "crush"; on a rare party they go half-mad with sudden unrestraint. Manuela, after a play in which she has starred, drinks several glasses of the school punch, staggers to the platform and announces that she loves a particular teacher, that the Fraulein...
...wounds all over his head and face. One eye was shut, the other expressionless. . . . The agony lasted 45 minutes." Bomber Frolenko spent 24 years at hard labor and in exile before he escaped in the uprisings of 1905. At 84 he is robust and hearty, talks incessantly of his exploit. "I was one of the principal organizers of the whole undertaking [against Alexander II]" boasted Assassin Frolenko last week. "For two years we hunted that scoundrel Tsar and at last we got him!" "Do you still approve your deed? Do you still approve of terror generally?" "I certainly do!" replied...
Miss Annie Smith Peck, long-famed mountain climber who will be 82 next month, plodded to the summit of Mount Crescent (3,280 ft.) near Gorham, N. H. and down again. Her most conspicuous exploit occurred 24 years ago when she climbed Mount Huascaran (21,812 ft.) in the Peruvian Andes. In her honor a peak of the mountain was named Cumbre Ana Peck...
...Radicalism, "Herein is the fundamental issue: A representative democracy, progressive and unafraid to meet its problems, but meeting them upon the foundations of experience (Artificial applause), and not upon the wave of emotion or the insensate demands of a radicalism which grasps at every opportunity to exploit the sufferings of a people. . . . One Desire. "I have but one desire-to see my country again on the road to prosperity. ... I rest the case of the Republican party on the intelligence and the just discernment of the American people. Should my countrymen again place upon me the responsibilities of this high...
...that seasoned Aïda-man, Maestro Alfredo Salmaggi. In New York's big Polo Grounds Maestro Salmaggi presented successive null at $1 top price, culminating in 1930 with one in which there were elephants as well as camels and horses (TIME, July 28,1930). Aiming to exploit music "on a basis consistent with the dignity of grand opera but with the ballyhoo that will bring its appeal to the proletariat," Maestro Salmaggi planned for Washington a performance with 500 supers from the local unemployed, horses from Fort Myer, elephants and camels from National Zoological Park. After two postponements...