Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Azzolini of the Bank of Italy, who is always popping up unheralded to comb this or that Italian bank's books personally, while its officers simper and squirm. Last week Signor Azzolini made several most exalted persons squirm. After going over the quantities of gold wedding rings, gold cups and gold medals presented by Italians to their State to speed the war (TIME, Dec. 30), the Bank of Italy announced that the "gold" medal given to His Excellency Benito Mussolini by His Holiness Pope Pius XI to commemorate the solution of the Roman Question had turned...
...subject matter is, the more difficult becomes the writing: Secondly, that the more thoughtful and balanced one tries to be in one's judgement, the less one can rely on sophisticated devices of writing techniques and hence the less crisp and the less "to be taken over a cup of coffee" becomes such writing. I am sure that others share my conviction that it is easier to write "engagingly" when one is not rigorously intent upon the truth...
Dartmouth won the meet, with Captain Woods carrying off every conceivable sort of cup. Next came McGill, then New Hampshire, followed by Williams, with the Crimson in fifth place...
...first-night opera was Verdi's La Tramata which has long supplied Lucrezia Bori with the role best suited to her fluttering, enameled charm. Soprano Bori can do no wrong so far as her audience is concerned. As chief collector in the tin-cup campaign she was roundly publicized as the Metropolitan's "Little Savior." Paired with her was big Richard Crooks who sang smoothly, acted with increasing ease...
...clear and powerful, so even throughout its range, so flawless in its phrasing that most critics went ecstatic. Four days later came Tristan und Isolde and all hats were in the air. Flagstad could sing. Though she indulged in no pyrotechnics, she was quietly effective as she raised the cup, offered the love potion to Tristan. Again at the end she reached rare heights when, with her voice still fresh and sure, she kneeled beside Tristan's body and sang the demanding Liebestod...