Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Liberals and Laborites read into Sir Thomas' statement a threat to conscript labor in wartime. Only recently His Majesty's Loyal Opposition forced Prime Minister Chamberlain to stop toying with the scheme of general registration of all citizens, the first step toward nationwide conscription. "As soon as war is declared the generals and the brass hats will be in charge of the whole resources of the country," howled Laborite Aneurin Bevan last week. Two days later, with His Majesty's Loyal Opposition still peppering Sir Thomas, the Prime Minister himself was forced onto the floor...
...swagger Eton College, and present owner of Glyndebourne Manor. A lifetime lover and patron of music, a constant attender at the Salzburg and Bayreuth Festivals, Captain Christie long had an ambition to establish an operatic festival of similar quality in England. In 1933 at Copenhagen he unfolded his scheme to round-faced Conductor Fritz Busch, German political exile and famed former conductor of the Dresden Opera. Enthusiastic Maestro Busch called in the help of his expatriated countryman, Stage Director Carl Ebert. With Austrian Impresario Rudolf Bing as General Manager, the first Glyndebourne opera season was launched. It lasted two weeks...
...distinction between tourist and cabin class quarters, the designers gave cabin class passengers a little Coromandel wood and gold. Finest rooms: the theatre, only air-conditioned one afloat, designed by Cornelis J. Engelen and Elisabeth de Boer in the shape of half an egg shell, with a rich color scheme of old rose, cerise, dull gold and red copper; Architect Oud's tourist class lounge, with a magnificent gay scarlet carpet...
...development of legal concepts rather than their "practical" value in modern law offices and courts. Boast is also made by Yale of the value of small classes in which there is close association between teacher and student. But, no matter how attractive on paper, the ultimate value of any scheme must be considered in the light of the ability and personality of the faculty which is to administer...
...proposed permanent home for the CRIMSON is to be located on Plympton street, just below Hampden Hall, according to the scheme outlined by H. M. Williams '85. The plans already made provide for a building of three stories and basement to be constructed in the Georgian type, in harmony with other University buildings. The edifice will be made of Harvard brick with stone trimmings...