Word: picnics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four-Part Setting - Ann Bridge -Little, Brown ($2.50). By the author of Peking Picnic, this sophisticated romance, with a Chinese background, stands out for its deft handling of romantic problems among the British embassy...
...Malmö Conference of the Three Kings agreed that Scandinavia would try to keep out of World War I while trading to beat the band with all belligerents. Last week in Stockholm it was already clear that World War II is not going to be any picnic for neutrals, but faces them at the outset with grim threats to their independence. Getting right down to cases, Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko asked Swedish Foreign Minister Rickard J. Sandier, Danish Foreign Minister Peter Munch and Norwegian Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht what concrete assistance, if any, their countries were prepared to offer...
...peacefully pottered around making things in basements and backyards, the tinkerers with old automobiles, the congenital polishers of hunting rifles, the methodical makers of artificial flies; it was in the people who swelled attendance at baseball games and football games, the millions of vacations that led everywhere: to picnic groves along the Missouri, where the sun coming through the cottonwood and maple gives them a coppery, luminous glow; to ranches in Wyoming, where the Sweetwater and Clark Fork curve through the rocky canyons; to the dunes of Cape Cod and the bayous of Louisiana. It was exploratory, adventurous, inventive, inquisitive...
...Mayor, New York's Governor. But Republican politicians have long known there was one office Nicholas Murray Butler coveted. Biggest Butler boom for President came in 1920, when his supporters, to bring him down to the voters' level, coined the slogan: "Pick Nick for a Picnic in November...
Invited to the Festival by friends, soft-spoken Dorothy Maynor wangled a chance to sing for Koussevitzky. When her big, velvety voice swung out in a brace of difficult Lieder, ceremonious Koussevitzky threw up his hands, cried: "A native Flagstad!" Next day, at a private picnic given by Koussevitzky to the members of the orchestra and a few hand-picked critics and musicians, Soprano Maynor, perfectly poised, warbled faultless coloratura, crooned deep Lieder, went to town on a Wagnerian Ho-yo-to-ho. The gilt-edged professional audience marveled at her versatility and easy form, found her rich voice...