Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While his sister toured Europe, Vittorio was. content to stay home studying. From the Juilliard he went to Rome on the Horatio Parker Fellowship. In April 1934 Mother Giannini died, a few months be fore Vittorio had his turn at being a sensation. At the world premiere of his first opera, Lucedia, a finicky Munich audience called him before the curtain 22 times. There was a rumor that Lucedia would be put on at the Metropolitan with Dusolina singing the title role, but this has never materialized...
Rosamund is not content. She has her friend, her work, her dog, her faithful retainers and a very nice place, as private as possible, overlooking the sea. But she sometimes considers throwing herself over the cliff. Then, one foggy day, a plane crashes in the woods above her house. Rosamund is the only one near; she runs for help, has the battered pilot carried to her house. The poor fellow is so badly smashed that at one point everybody but Rosamund and the reader give him up for dead. He comes around eventually, turns out to be 24, good-looking...
...remarks of his own. Aiming squarely at II Duce's week-old pronouncement of self-sufficiency for Italy, timed shrewdly for London's current Imperial Conference whose outcome may decide a U. S.-Great Britain reciprocal trade agreement. Secretary Hull damned self-sufficiency "unless a nation is content to 'sink into abject degradation, economic and spiritual impoverishment"; called for "a demobilization of ... stifling . . . mutual mistrust, of political hostility, of exhausting and suicidal race for military power, of continuing economic warfare...
...with a campus dance. Nothing was at stake except Student Bauer's desire for the No. 2 rating on the fencing team, which Student Cousineau enjoyed by virtue of his showing in the Pacific Coast fencing tournament last month. Nursing a three-inch cut, Fencer Bauer had to content himself with the No. 3 rating...
Speeches were six or seven minutes long. Judging went on a basis of diction, content, and recording. All the contestants' voices were put on record by Professor Packard. They stod before microphones while delivering their speeches...