Word: astride
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...most unknown singers the chance never comes in a lifetime. But it came to short, plump-cheeked, 23-year-old Astrid Varnay-the chance to stride the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in a big part. Soprano Lotte Lehmann fell ill, Soprano Varnay donned the blond wig and nightie of Sieglinde in Wagner's Die Walküre. Though she had never appeared on any stage, she sang that hapless housewife's role with such easy assurance that critics all but ho-yo-to-hoed...
...Belgian Princess Marie-Jose. Standing in the Pauline Chapel of the royal palace during the ceremony was another glamor boy, a little gloomy, but slightly angelic with the light catching his golden hair. He was Leopold III, Crown Prince of the Belgians, already married three years to Swedish Princess Astrid...
...return Herbert Hoover laid wreaths on the tombs of King Albert and Queen Astrid, visited the Royal Palace, forgathered with veterans of the old Commission for Relief in Belgium, said: "I am happy, really happy, to be in Belgium again...
Dowagers and daughters found that the 17-year-old Crown Prince would answer any question addressed to him, and that was all. Not until he was several years older did he wake up and start courting in his own way Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid.* Completely eluding news gossips who kept marrying him off to other princesses, Leopold would set out from Brussels traveling third class and carrying a small satchel as if going only for a short trip, would arrive at a country station in southeastern Sweden to be met by nobody and walk off with his satchel...
...Prince, partly by serving as an active member of the Belgian Senate and partly by preparing for his father a series of comparative reports on colonial administration in the Belgian Congo, British India, The Netherlands Indies, the Philippines and French Indo-China. It was not simply that Leopold and Astrid "inspected" or showed "interest" on their travels. The Crown Prince everywhere took copious notes of the replies made to his questions, collected and studied reports as he went along, and on returning to Brussels closeted himself for weeks, writing up his own reports to King Albert and preparing his speeches...