Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without reaching its objective, and so when it was revealed that, in addition to the masters of the first two Houses and News Office Director Lamb, the president himself would receive the press representatives he has so diligently eluded throughout all the years of his administration, an expression of blank amazement crept over the faces of Boston's veteran newspaper...
...Glory of the Nightingales is written in a quiet blank verse. As befits the reminiscent, sometimes conversational manner, the language is keyed low, but it has a subtle tension which gradually accumulates its tragic effect. There are few memorable, marmoreal phrases, none that would sound out of place in a sober and serious colloquy. Occasionally this quiet phrasing has a bite in it which louder words somehow lack. Nightingale is telling Malory how he ruined him by not giving him warning to sell stock he knew was going to crash...
Comprising nine scenes in three acts, the libretto "will be a sort of operatic verse, or a sort of loose blank verse, in that the words may be sung." It will not be in the grand style of Wagnerian music-drama. Composer Taylor started work with a Wagner-type opera in mind, but found the German form somehow did not naturally evolve. Was it especially "American?" he was asked. Replied he: "Perhaps some of the rhythm might be deemed so, but that is for the critics. However, I wasn't attempting to make it such...
...Joseph Randolph Nutt of Cleveland, treasurer of the Republican National Committee, logically the first to feel the financial pinch, took the lead to get Mr. Huston out of office. The Young Guard in the Senate loudly called for his resignation. President Hoover, reluctant to intervene directly by a point-blank demand for the retirement of his old friend and political aide, nevertheless sided with those who wanted...
Sumner of Yale (folkways, etc.) and his dictum that what Ethan Allen probably said to Capt. Delaplace at Ticonderoga was "Surrender, you blank-blank blank-of-a-blank." Simmer's interest was debunking history, de flating legends of false heroics...