Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frenetic applause of a Vienna audience which heard him conduct Verdi's Aida. The performance was given in the huge amphitheatre, scene of numerous sporting events. On the stage were 2,000 musicians, singers, dancers-Italians; in the audience were 20,000 listeners-Austrians. Without imposing a defeat, the former scored a victory, orderly, harmonious. In this azione, were cast the finest singers of a honey-throated nation. Signora Poli-Randaccio was Aida, brought to the part of the Egyptian maid a southern warmth and temper; Giovanni Zenatello was heard as Rhadames, Maria Gay-Zenatello as Amneris...
...Townsend, 67, onetime U. S. Senator from Michigan; in Jackson, of heart failure. Mr. Townsend was elected to the Senate in 1910 and again in 1916. In the battle to oust Senator Newberry, he delivered an impassioned defense of his colleague, to which "Newberryism" was attributed his own defeat...
...patient and slightly bewildered public learned last week that the June strike of the actors and the subsequent struggle with the managers will affect the Fall season scarcely at all. With the exception of David Belasco, George M. Cohan, George Tyler and Henry Miller, the managers have admitted defeat and are casting productions under the new and slightly rigid conditions demanded by the Actors' Equity Association...
Avoiding the "mistake" which the Greek Government made in executing the Ministers alleged to be responsible for the Greek defeat at the hands of the Turks, the Bulgarian Parliament (Sobranje) voted amnesty to ex-Premier Vaseil Radoslavoff and his Cabinet who were charged with treason in having brought Bulgaria into the War on the side of the Central Powers...
...communiqués issued by the Brazilian Government stated that victory was in sight: that a great battle was raging in which the defeat of the rebels was momentarily expected; that the rebel cause was doomed; that strong reinforcements had been sent to the Sao Paulo front and a decisive engagement planned; that the great assault was certain to crush the rebels; that the attack was about to begin...