Word: die
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...MacDonald but Stanley Baldwin is leader of the Conservative Party which dominates the House of Commons, sustains the National Government. By what his friends call "masterly inaction" Mr. Baldwin has kept his Party from splitting internally, the natural and dangerous tendency of any too-great majority. Year after year die-hard Tories led by Winston Churchill have attacked moderate Tory Baldwin for his bumbling virtues, which seem to them defects. Masterly inaction, they say, is going to cost Britain the loss of India, and with India the Empire will be lost. Last year Mr. Churchill fought Leader Baldwin in party...
...want babies resort to secret abortions. She estimates that 4,000,000 U. S. women have themselves | aborted each year. Dr. Frederick Joseph Taussig of St. Louis, President Hoover's special investigator of the subject, puts the number at 700,000.* Probably 15,000 U. S. women die each year on account of faulty abortions...
...prima donna roll-call were taken this week there would be no answers from the great singers of 50 years ago. The last to die, at a rich old age, was plump little Marcella Sembrich (TIME, Jan. 21). Of the living singers no longer singing there remains mountainous Luisa Tetrazzini who in Italy squabbles publicly over money with her 34-year-old husband. In France there is old Emma Calvé, proud with the assurance that her Carmen has never been surpassed. In a walk-up studio in Bronxville (N. Y.), great Olive Fremstad lives grimly surrounded by her operatic...
...best Lehmann is indisputably one of the world's few great singers. Her rich voice is always deeply moving. With Lieder her abundant temperament sometimes gets the best of her. Opera suits her better. In Tannhäuser her exuberant Elisabeth dominates the stage. In Die Meistersinger she becomes the youthful ingenuous heroine whom Wagner imagined. As Sieglinde in Die Walküre she has no living peer. Next month Manhattan's critics will have their first chance to pass on her Tosca...
...program for the Milton concert is as follows: Chorale and Finale from "Die Meistersinger," by Wagner; "Jesu Dulcis Memoria," by Vittoria; "My Bonny Lass," by Morley; "Brennan on the Moor," an English folksong with D. P. McAllister '38 as soloist; "Le Miracle de St. Nicholas," a French chorale, with Courtland Canby '36 and John H. Eric '37 as soloists; "Spanish Ladies," an English folksong, with John L. Bishop '37 as soloist; three love songs from Opus 65 by Brahms: "Nightingale, Thy Sweetest Song"; "A Tremor's in the Branches"; "From Yon Hills," a chorus from "Iolanthe" by Sir Arthur Sullivan...