Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...landslide of 1934. What made the name of Franklin Roosevelt so big, so black, so bold, was the fact that the wealthiest single nation of the modern world had committed itself as never before to one man in a do-or-die attempt to pull itself out of a deep, dark economic hole...
First sound of the deep rackety bass of Chaliapin is when, in a cobwebby garret, the witling Don carols a Spanish song and puts on a battered suit of armor. He has driven his niece (Sidney Fox) and her ninny of a fiance to despair by selling all his possessions to buy a library of chivalric romances. He sallies forth, enters a tavern where strolling players are performing. Vastly amused, they dub him knight. He swears fealty to his Dulcinea -a tavern wench. Arousing his trusty Sancho Panza (Robey) from bed, the old knight drags him off on a career...
...last week was the so-called Lira Monument in the little town of Pesaro. There, eight years ago, when statesmen of the world were unanimously convinced that the gold standard is the only honest monetary standard and must be defended as such, Benito Mussolini uttered the words now cut deep into the marble slab of Pesaro's monument: I SAY TO THE WHOLE CIVILIZED WORLD THAT WE WILL DEFEND THE LIRA TO THE LAST BREATH, TO THE LAST DROP OF BLOOD...
...their programs the congregation knew that Miss Schirmer was interpreting "The Greatness of God." Registering wonder, adoration, obeisance, awe, supplication she continued with "The Peace of God That Passeth All Understanding" (music by Gluck); "The Universality of God" (Beethoven); "The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness" (Bach); "The Deep Sense of Abiding in God" (Beethoven); "Angels Announcing the Coming of the Messiah" (Bach). The whole thing was a "Sermon in Six Dances" meant to portray "The Coming of the Messiah...
...less, the board attempted a reconciliation with Stokowski. It asked him to return and conduct whatever concerts and operas he wished, implied that the "deep-lying differences" would not be insurmountable. Stokowski's friends felt that so great a conductor should have complete command. His critics felt that he was lacking in gratitude for all Philadelphia had done for him. Though the board issued no formal statement on the subject, the views of some of its members were reflected in the Philadelphia Record, partly owned by Samuel Pels (Fels-Xaptha Soap), one of the board's vice presidents...