Word: jagged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like this, but flaws are to pick. Perhaps Miss Skinner draws too heavily on one of the fullest bags of tricks in the business; her white hands are at times just a touch too dramatic. But from Donald Oenslager's faithful Victorian drawing room set to Prossy's champagne jag, this production is all of a piece. It is worth going to see, for Pygmalion is not Mr. Shaw's only triumph...
...Oklahoma boys staggered down the aisle of an Oklahoma City church waving a whiskey bottle, threw a State W. C. T. U. convention into an uproar. Amid screaming and fainting women, police arrived and dragged the drunks off to jail. There, when.it transpired that the whiskey was coffee, the jag a joke, the four students were let off. Said one of them: ''It was the biggest act of my career, and before the most unsympathetic audience...
...conductor. Highest admission charge is about $1.75, cheapest 50?. The 50?-tickets admit bearers to a large space devoid of any seats. There, an odd assortment of Londoners amble around the floor, smoke, swap opinions and amateur musical criticism, behave in general more like swing fans at a jam jag than ordinary concertgoers. On some nights the floor is so packed, the air so heavy with smoke and heat that faintings and hurried exits are common. Since the series began in 1895, weed-whiskered old Sir Henry Joseph Wood has conducted every concert. When he and Concert Agent Robert Newman...
What's in the wind to occasion recurring comment on the contingency of internal disorder here? Do the 1940 elections bear an ominous look? Are all democracies expected to go on a jag every generation or so ? Do Viewers-with-Alarm expect Federal finances to go haywire ? Failing to have his way with the Supreme Court, the Executive Department and now the Senate, is the President expected to resort to a putsch to perpetuate his policies? Are the Nazis suspected of a plan to sabotage American aid to France and England when Der Tag arrives...
...present fame has arrived slowly and late. His music, individual, serious, austere and sometimes forbidding, contains no trace of modernistic tricks or formulas. As he once remarked to his publisher (in Swedish) "Här i utlandet fabricemr ni cocktails i olika külorer, och nu kommer jag med rena källvattnet" ("Other composers may manufacture cocktails of every color; I offer the public pure cold water...