Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Human,* Editor) appeared on the newsstands, was eagerly bought and discussed by the practitioners of the trade. Singing, its first readers found, was somewhat patchily made up. It contained an article by W. J. Henderson, critic, who pooh-poohed the popular reverence for opera stars, calling Emilio de Gogorza, concert baritone, "the supreme artist of them all." It was embellished by a page of caricatures of famed musicians, by a blurred "Art Supplement," and by a song entitled "A Memory" and beginning: Somehow I feel that thou art near, Though naught there is around, which the composer, one Rudolph Ganz...
Eccentric Ethel Leginska made one of her famed disappearances last week in Evansville, Ind. She was scheduled to play at the Coliseum there before an audience of some 3,000. The evening of the concert came, almost the hour-no Leginska. It was recollected that when she left the train she had said: "I don't want to ride in your old yellow cabs. I can't play the piano tonight. I want my symphony orchestra." When she went to the hall to practice: "I don't like this old barn. I won't play...
Baptists do have their shortcomings. The First Baptist Church of East Charlotte, Vermont, gave a concert last summer, an excellent concert, which about ten people, strangers and atheists, attended; the localites--up there one is a Baptist or a heathen--the localites sat outside on the lawn where it was possible to hear the concert for nothing Yes, you can call the Baptists careful at times--but then so's your--President...
...altered the Constitution of the Italian state that any preconceived opposition to Fascismo is politically useless and historically absurd. Duo. That the nefarious and scandalous campaign of the Aventines has miserably failed, because it rested upon no foundation. Tre. That the Aventine pledges itself to cease to act in concert with Anti-Fascists abroad...
...Coolidge attended a luncheon of the Senate Ladies, as also a concert of the New York Philharmonic Society...