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...whole body is twisting in a useless effort. His chest tries to expand to inhale some air, and His head has fallen sideways. . . . Convulsions shake His body from head to foot. His heart is beating wildly. Red tears are streaming down His cheeks. Oh! His head has fallen completely backwards, and it looks as if He had fainted...
...proposing to shake Army airmen loose from Army groundlings, Brigadier General Billy Mitchell was harried out of the service in 1926. For all but setting up an independent air service last week, Major General Henry H. Arnold was handsomely rewarded. He became the first Chief of Air Corps vested with control over every phase of the corps's operations. Without any fanfare and with very little notice, a momentous change was thus made: the Army's flying force was turned over to flying...
...symphonies, from Tchaikovsky's high crown six, from Beethoven's shaggy pate nine. Mozart's wonderfully broad forehead gave out no less than 41. But when tough old Joseph ("Papa'') Haydn sat down at the age of 72 to catalogue his works, he could shake his egg-shaped head till it nearly cracked, but he could not for the life of him remember all those nice symphonies he had written. Their authenticated number...
...camps about as follows: 1) those who believe that the dictators cannot live forever and that anyhow Europe had best be left to take care of itself-they want a big stick just in case, and 2) those who want to stand up on top of the barricade, shake the stick in such an unequivocal manner that the dictators will mend their ways...
Almost before the candle fumes were cleared, the Boston musicians returned in white pea jackets, and were on their way to town with Composer Louis Gruenberg's modernistic jazz score, Daniel Jazz. The result was hardly enough to shake a Brahmin into a shag, but it was pretty hot stuff for the Boston Symphony...