Word: valhalla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whatever Valhalla exists for U. S. politicos, many a shade must have called for stronger mead one day last week. For in Washington the Civil Service Commission released 25 pages of new rules under the Hatch Act, rigidly barring 939,876 Federal employes from any real political activity except voting. Classified workers (620,000) may not even express their preferences publicly; may not march in parades (blow horns, beat drums); may not write articles on politics; may not distribute literature or buttons; may not bet on elections; may attend conventions but not participate; may not allow their husbands or wives...
Dogs droop and often die of distemper, a virus disease which affects them very much as influenza affects human beings. For experimental purposes scientists infect monkeys with the virus of distemper, just as they infect them with the virus of infantile paralysis. Last year, at Valhalla, N. Y., Dr. Gilbert Julias Dalldorf and associates* tried to inoculate monkeys with strains of both diseases at the same time and found that monkeys will not catch infantile paralysis while suffering from distemper. Last fortnight the Rockefeller Institute's Journal of Experimental Medicine presented the details of the experiments, as well...
...late star's mother, Mrs. Jean Bello, Miss Harlow's remains were taken to Forest Lawn Memorial Park's Wee Kirk o' the Heather, a nondenominational shrine in the nation's most extraordinary cemetery, which has become, in the last decade, the Valhalla of the cinema business...
...Wagner's Götterdämmerung (Dusk of the Gods), three Norns are spinning the dark threads of Wotan's fate. During the next four and a half hours Siegfried is speared in the back, his half-divine wife follows him onto the pyre and all Valhalla collapses in flames. Because Götterdämmerung is the longest and most difficult opera in Wagner's Ring, it is sung more rarely than the others. People squeezed into every available inch of standing room one afternoon last week when Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera gave...
...until after King George V came to the Throne had Westminster Abbey, sacred "Valhalla of the Empire," been used over a period of six centuries for such joyous occasions as a Royal Marriage. A bridesmaid at the wedding of Princess Mary, only daughter of King George & Queen Mary, was wholesome and attractive young Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, today Queen Elizabeth. When the present King George VI presently sought his sister's bridesmaid's hand, she made no secret of her Scottish impression that he had been sent. She unaffectedly told His Royal Highness that she could...