Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Infant Jesus meek and mild Look on me a little child Pity mine and pity me And suffer me to come to thee...
...took all her patience. Main trouble was that, like blind people, he anticipated objects, and consistently hesitated on his third stride toward the jump. She worked out a group of signals: "come on," "ready," "gather for the jump," "hup" for the actual leap itself. Then she taught him to walk up and touch the jump with his breast to judge its height, canter down and turn, settle into his old, familiar stride again. Soon she had him doing high hurdles...
...plump, homey individual, as different from Soprano Farrar as Pilsener is from champagne, Soprano Lehmann writes much better. The daughter of a small town bookkeeper who wanted her to be come a respectable stenographer or school teacher, Lotte Lehmann made a very gradual climb to stardom, worked her way laboriously through bit parts at second-rank German opera houses. It was not until the London Covent Garden season of 1923 that she won international fame. But once won, that fame stuck like well-swabbed glue...
Since Munich the element of reluctance has given way to alacrity in the Balkans where Germany is concerned. Dr. Funk announced last week that the Economics Ministers of Turkey, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria have all "gladly accepted" his invitations to come to Berlin and talk further big business soon...
Will there be war? Has war come...