Word: derring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...June 18, 1940, after the fall of Holland, Belgium and France, German Ambassador to Moscow Count von der Schulenburg reported: "Molotov . . . expressed the warmest congratulations of the Soviet government on the splendid success of the German armed forces...
...Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. Soloists: Kathleen Ferrier, Set Svanholm. Conductor: Bruno Walter...
Devoted Hope fans will be sickened, and all others put to sleep, after ten minutes of this witches' brew of poor vaudeville and worse dialogue. For the womenfolk, der Bingle fights his way gamely through two or three songs whose only distinction lies in the fact that they are all composed of the same four notes...
Robert D. King will lead the Brass Choir in the balance of the program which includes the Chorale "Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr" by Bach, Six Pieces by Pezel, a "Canzon" and "Canzona" by Gabrieli, and "Two Pieces for Brass Instruments" by Willson Osbourne. Sponsored by the Department of Music, the concert is free and open to the public...
...lines had been hard hit, but Frau Wilhelmine Bracht could not think when business had been better. On Berlin's fashionable Kurfürstendamm, outside "Der Ring," the marriage bureau she had run these 14 years, Berliners crowded around such arresting announcements...