Word: desdemona
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...sang arias from the third and fourth acts of La Bohème, the balcony scene from Romeo et Juliette to the Romeo of Charles Hackett, U. S. tenor, the final scene from Otello. She died once as Mimi, again as Desdemona. Her Britannic Majesty, high in her royal box, wiped away a tear...
...Baker, onetime Secretary of War, now a Cleveland lawyer and chief counsel for the merger proponents, snapped to his feet as soon as proceedings permitted, keen eyes sparkling, clipping words contrary to his usually calm setting forth of arguments as purely intellectual concepts, refuted charges and implications, recalled that "Desdemona's handkerchief in hands other than her own became a wanton's gift to her paramour in the eyes of her suspicious lord...
...stubborn interest of the casual attendant. In the second place, the interpretation of Mr. Hampden, scholarly and earnest as it is, seems somehow to fail the Moor. He plays Othello resonantly and with determination. Always he plays it; never does he bring the suffering soldier to life. Furthermore, the Desdemona of Jeannette Sherwin is distinctly under standard. Iago (Baliol Holloway, Englishman) gives a curiously individual, irritating and yet undeniably admirable performance...
...brought an end to lago's pestulant plots yesterday morning when Professor Kittredge and 200 students in English 2 abandoned Harvard 6, unable to compete with the strange rasping that reverberated through the ventilator. About 10.30 o'clock the periodic screach commenced. Ten minutes later the class had forgotten Desdemona and Professor Kittredge had given up an attempt to set his lecture to music...
...fold the oil fever that was then sweeping Texas. In addition to many old-time operators thousands of persons hastened to Texas who knew nothing at all of the business. Enormous areas of the State were placed under lease, thousands of wells were drilled in the Ranger, Burkburnett and Desdemona fields, and skyscrapers sprang-up in Dallas and Fort Worth to furnish office space for the oil companies and lease-scalpers...