Word: dies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...starts off stoutly enough with a fearful kaffir curse by which three Englishmen and an American are to die. The British mortality is high by the ending act, but the American, naturally, survives. If they do it in London? which they will not?the three-in-one nationalities must be shuffled...
There are few professions in which men can die young and be said to have left careers. In politics, for example, there are 1,000 Henry Cabot Lodges and Uncle Joe Cannons, etc., for one Alexander Hamilton. It is the same in Business, in Medicine, in Law, in Education. From time to time we have our Charles W. Eliots, but how seldom do we have our Marion LeRoy Burtons...
Interrupted by a bitter and irrelevent crescendo of musketry, the music of Richard Wagner ceased, in 1917, to be heard at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. This winter has been revived The Ring of the Nibelungen-famed cycle which includes Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung. Between the date of interruption and the date of this revival, a number of Wagner operas have been presented at the Metropolitan. Die Walkure was revived with eclat in 1921, Siegfried in 1924. Yet these performances have been isolated in the flood of Italian melody: Lucia, Aida, Tosca, Rigoletto. Now among such pretty pieces...
...Die Walkure. Wotan shivered in Walhalla, fearful of his enemies who possessed the ring. Therefore he dressed like a man and, suiting his behavior to the part, begot some descendants (The Race of the Walsungs) one of whom, he determined, should regain the ring...
...Grane, famed war horse, when she became tangled in its lead-string; there was a moment's scuffle, the horse stepped upon Mme. Larsen-Todsen. Mme. Muller, a 23-year-old soprano from Czecho-Slovakia, was loudly and justly applauded when she made her first U. S. appearance in Die Walk?...