Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stagehands there was a parchment scroll in a revolving bronze frame. The choristers gave a bronze plaque, the U. S. singers a silver plaque, the orchestramen a gold plaque. From Geraldine Farrar there was a silver loving cup, another from Rosa Ponselle. The administrative assistants chose a silver fitted traveling-case. The Metropolitan directors gave a silver tray with a set of resolutions. Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath was more practical. His gift: a bust of Mr. Gatti to be placed in the Metropolitan. Gatti asked only for the name plates from his box and office doors, for the secret...
...peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous saw an apparition of the Blessed Virgin. Bernadette is now of the blessed company of saints (TIME, Dec. 11, 1933) and the Grotte de Massabielle, scene of the apparition, is the Church's most famed miracle ground. This spot Pope Pius XI chose for ceremonies bringing to an end last week the two-year period he pronounced holy in commemoration of the 1,900th anniversary of Christ's death. To represent his august person at Lourdes the Pope could send no lesser person than his trusty Secretary of State Pacelli, who in turn...
...hailed for what he is: a grand old man of music, whose record has been rich, whose friends have been many, whose position in the limelight has never once dimmed since he slipped into his father's big boots a half century ago. For his jubilee performance he chose to conduct excerpts from Fidelio and from Die Meistersinger, for which he made his own English translation. On a different occasion critics would have commented lengthily on Baritone Lawrence Tibbett who was stalwartly enacting his first Hans Sachs. But the evening was Walter Damrosch's and the time...
...play which the Dramatic Club chose deals with the troubles of a clergyman and his wife who entertain a devil without realizing it. The form taken by the evil spirit and the situations which arise are said to be highly entertaining...
...usual was not due entirely to the fact that Chicago's team included representatives of Detroit, Cleveland, Dayton. After the New York finals, 26 winners selected for the team demanded pay for their services. Determined to keep the Golden Gloves strictly amateur, the Daily News Athletic Association promptly chose substitutes from boxers defeated earlier in the tournament...