Word: darkly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Before the War most typical of the gay luxuriance of Moscow was Yar's famed restaurant where gypsies sang and danced. A favorite at Yar's was Singer Nastia Poliakova whose deep, dark voice perfectly suited the purely emotional substance, the rambling, improvised style of gypsy songs. After the revolution Poliakova went to sing in a Paris cafe. This year she is in the U. S. to submit her informal, indefinable talent to the test of formal concerts. Manhattan liked her so much that last week she gave a second pro gram there, announced a third...
Conservative Manhattan bankers last week were angry at Bernard K. Marcus, dark-haired, heavily-built president of Bank of United States. His aim was perhaps much too high. Only last year he stated: "Often we've put two or three days work into one. We have gone ahead two or three times as fast as we would have had we been working only one day at a time." To bankers, a day's work is a day's work, to be done well, thoroughly. Constantly repeated was the story that at every conference Banker Marcus had adopted an attitude...
...Ohio's Bulkley" for special advertising (TIME, Nov. 24) makes some people think TIME has not heard of the "Ohio Gang," who were to Ohio as a mother of presidents, what the Civil War was to that other mother of presidents - Virginia. . . . There are other potent likely dark horses for TIME to put forward. But not from oily, slimy, Ohio, ugh! JAMES W. FARMER...
...largest ever printed. It measured 50 in. by 35 in., had 13 columns to the page, contained numerous pictures, including one of President Buchanan. The Constellation was published in Manhattan on July 4, 1867 by one George Roberts. Other curios: one of the earliest Socialist journals (1849), printed on dark red paper; an Eskimo newspaper; a copy of the Cologne Volks-zeitung (1889) which presented a brief story of the 100th anniversary of the firm of Solomon Oppenheimer, printed in letters of gold...
...Author. Paul Morand, 42, poet, globetrotter, onetime member of the French diplomatic corps, is tall, dark, silent in company, but says he is happy, content, unruffled and undisturbed. Other (translated) books: Green Shoots, The Living Buddha, Open All Night, Closed All Night...