Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought it a terrible thing, that the Duke should be denied what was open to any other Englishman-a religious ceremony at his wedding. . . . We dared not tell a soul except a church warden who was bound to secrecy. I believe my husband would not mind if he were forced to leave the church. We sent the servants away, closed the house and came to London...
...Danish castle which William Shakespeare had in mind when he wrote Hamlet was Kronborg Castle, whose sombre walls and pinnacles frown across the narrow sound between Sweden and Denmark. A state property for centuries, the old place was a military barracks until ten years ago, when it became a marine museum. Last week a troupe from London's Old Vic company played the drama of the melancholy prince on the designated spot-at Kronborg Castle. Directed by Tyrone Guthrie, Laurence Olivier (The Green Bay Tree) took the name part opposite Vivien Leigh's Ophelia. Cadets of the Danish...
National game of the U. S., baseball can be regarded as a delicate barometer of the U. S. state of mind. Before Depression, major interest of baseball addicts was the aggressive, expansive department of batting. Babe Ruth was the game's No. 1 hero. Since Depression, major interest of baseball addicts has been the defensive, conservative department of pitching. Pitchers are currently the game's top heroes. Last week, four able major-league pitchers made news in four utterly different ways...
...erotic, tormented mind of the late Playwright Frank Wedekind, a woman named Lulu was a symbol of insatiability. His two plays about her (Erdgeist and Büchse der Pandora) showed people helplessly racked by passion, preached: "Only children have reason; men are animals." Composer Alban Berg articulated the same opinion with his opera Wozzeck. When he based an opera on Wedekind's Lulu, Berg produced the most impressive monument of lust in all musical literature. When orchestral excerpts from it were played at the Berlin Staatsoper, extra police squads stood by to govern the crowds. Lulu was given...
...dining-room, hidden by the eager, gossipping headlines of my newspaper from the stricken faces of my fellows bowed down by the dread anticipation of today's examinations. The war half over for me, with two examinations passed and almost forgotten and two waiting several days hence. Across my mind a quick flash of business cycles, wage differentials, currency restrictions, and then the determinations to forget these dolorous tasks for yet another day until Cambridge may become less like the Belgian Congo and more like Cambridge...