Word: dies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first offering was Die Meistersinger, sung by artists selected for stature as well as for voice. All were six-or seven-footers, of Prussian-grenadier proportions. Herr Hermann Weil, of the Metropolitan's pre-War staff, took the role of Hans Sachs, the shoemaker-singer of Nürnberg...
...blieb uns gleich die heilige deutsche Kunst...
...said to have "glowed like a colorful piece of tapestry." Though the bulk of the audience was German middleclass, former Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria and General Ludendorff glittered in the Wagner box. There, too, were Hugh Walpole, English author, and Count Albert Apponyi, towering Hungarian. Parsifal, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, other masterpieces followed...
Last week, however, brought to a close a highly professional piece of religious journalism. It was an exhaustive investigation of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas?so-called "Darkest Dallas"? conducted by The Churchman. It developed the amazing story of a die-hard Bishop, and a Hell-and-Garden-of-Eden Baptist, united with the Ku Klux in a bond of enmity against a liberal Rector...
...very stout lady's sake." The fine old figure of the Emperor Franz Josef flits through a large section of the book, together with many crowned and titled European celebrities and our own Roosevelt. At Ischl, Jeritza sang before the Emperor, in Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus. "How he applauded! In the second act I sang the very brilliant Czardas, with its fiery, passionate frischka dance close. When I ended the Emperor clapped and did not stop until I sang the number a second time. Then we-he and I-repeated the performance; he applauded and I sang...