Word: performed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lester Patrick himself had to perform a feat. In the first period of the second game of the playoffs, when the Ranger goalie was removed to a hospital after being struck in the eye by a whizzing puck, Manager Patrick, who had been out of the game since 1921, came from the sidelines, took his place. Never a goalie in his playing days, Patrick allowed the puck to slip by him only once, saved the game. In the third game, with a borrowed goalie, the Rangers...
Later that evening, like troupers doing a two-a-night, the cast of Pins & Needles moved on to Washington's Mayflower Hotel to perform before Madam Secretary Perkins and 1,000 others, in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Department of Labor. At the Mayflower the show went over big a second time. In the audience was William Green, President of the A. F. of L.; conspicuously absent was John L. Lewis, who is at outs with I. L. G. W. U.'s Dubinsky. During the song One Big Union for Two, which is propaganda...
...motherly woman who looks something like Napoleon, with wisps of hair on her broad forehead, squinting eyes, a huge nose. She has trained many a dog, written many an article on the soul life of animals. Boldly she called scholars to "expose" her work, boasting that Kurwenal would perform when she was out of sight and earshot. Müller, Wulf, Plate and others went to her Weimar home to scoff, stayed to be yapped...
...summer of 1934 Germany's Nazi Kulturkammer (Chamber of Culture), enraged by a much-publicized performance of Paul Hindemith's modernistic, juiceless, but adept suite, Mathis der Maler, declared its composer a pernicious Kulturbolschewist (cultural Bolshevist). Despite a plea by Germany's star conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had introduced the work at a Berlin concert, Composer Hindemith's compositions were officially banned from German concert programs. Conductor Furtwängler resigned his job in protest, cried: "It is a crime to attempt to defame and drive him [Hindemith] from Germany, since none...
Rusty's diving so far has been variable, ranging from 104 points to the 125 points he took the New England diving championships with. He hasn't been diving high-board lately, so just how he may perform is a question that can't be settled until tonight...