Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...philosophic cow which not only sings falsetto and bass but also performs duets with itself will next November join that operatic zoo which includes the lyrical Forest Bird and the Dragon Fafner in Wagner's Siegfried; the Cock in Rimsky- Korsakov's Coq d'Or and the Fishes in his Sadko; the Frog-Man in Respighi's Sunken Bell. This cow, it was announced last week, is a character in Jack and the Beanstalk, a new opera composed by Louis Gruenberg to the libretto of Author-Professor-Pianist John Erskine. First of a projected series...
...Beanstalk is retold in the naively sophisticated manner which Author Erskine found profitable in his novel The Private Life of Helen of Troy. Jack, a soprano, loses gold, a hen and a magic harp to a Gargantuan bass giant. An old woman tricks him out of his faithful cow, burlesqued by two bassos who lyricize fore & aft. The harridan gives him a handful of beans which grow into the familiar beanstalk; he retrieves his treasures from the giant, who at last turns out to be an inflated rubber figure. The old lady by stages becomes a beauteous princess whom Jack...
...more significant than the rise in stock prices, last week, was a world-wide gain in commodities. The most important gain was that registered in silver. The only calm thing about the Bombay silver bullion exchange is the sacred cow which, fat and lazy, spends most of her time in somnambulistic repose, blinking sadly and chewing her cud. During the Depression the sacred cow has seen many disconcerting things. Silver has dropped from 1929's high of 57½? to the historic low of 25½?per fine ounce. The only notable interruption was the remarkable corner staged last...
...popular drinks: here today and gone tomorrow. I have been in Exeter for several years, and I have as yet to meet such a drink, though I have met many fearful ones. For example: Welch grape juice in a milk shake, thus making their advertised "Purple Cow...
...Paris, a Monsieur Vache (French for "cow") applied to the courts for a change of name. M. Vache said 14 girls had refused to marry him; he had to marry a Polish girl who understood no French...