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...since its unification in 1870 Germany has been the most dynamic power on the Continent, pushing on every side to get outlets for the energy and ability of her people. This outward push was checked for a while by the Great War, but Hitler has picked up the old torch and put the question squarely to the statesmen of Europe, can Germany expand without another war? This problem overshadows every other one, and with China and Spain for the minute shelved, to this problem European diplomacy will devote itself during the winter...
...moaning in tent shows like the Rabbit-Foot Minstrels. With a big, vibrant voice which survived even her last hard-drinking days, she sang blues songs long before the War brought the blues (and jazz) north, lived to see strict blues singing yield popularity to the sophisticated torch singing typified by the art of Ethel Waters. But Bessie Smith left her mark on jazz. Hot instrumentalists like Benny Goodman and the late "Bix" Beiderbecke, listening to her in Chicago night clubs, never forgot the mood and timing of her songs, or the way she taught her accompanists to perform...
...52nd Street, the picture focuses on an upper-crusty family (Ian Hunter, Dorothy Peterson, Zasu Pitts), follows them through 25 years of fussing against change, winds up by converting them all to the new state of things. To make the rapprochement complete, fluttery maiden Sister Zasu sings tintype torch songs in a nightclub floor show, treads lively measures with Hollywood's Sid Silvers, 52nd Street's Jack White...
...University or the alumni should raise the School to undisputed first place in the field of education and draw consistently the best crop of students to its doors. In addition, and what has greater significance, the School will thereby perform its duty of teaching teachers to bear the torch of civilization forward...
...preacher of burning zeal, Fray Junipero moved his people to penitential awe with such mortifications as applying a torch to his bare chest and beating it with stones. With a party of 15 he visited the missions of Lower California, then struck north into new and unsaved territory. At San Diego in 1769 he established Upper California's first mission which was, like all the others, a civil as well as a spiritual outpost. A mission consisted of a church, a residence of the fathers, a presidio or military guard, shops and workrooms in which to instruct Indians...