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Word: dieses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most famous of the arias in "Dido and Aeneas" is that sung by Dido just before she dies: "When I Am Laid in Earth." But easily as worthy of fame is the closing chorus of the work, which we feel to be one of the peaks of choral writing.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 3/31/1938 | See Source »

How. To grease the way in Congress for the launching of a huge naval program the President shrewdly proposed to hand the Army some small change at the same time-$17,000,000 besides its regular appropriation. This would be used for ammunition, antiaircraft equipment, tools and dies for future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Second to None | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

When he dies, State Legislator Girard Muccigrosso will be well able to pay the $300 or more his own funeral will cost. But it makes him uneasy that many of his constituents in The Bronx will not be able to do so. So last week at Albany he introduced a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Parlors for Paupers | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

But with all its headlong violence, Boundary Against Night follows a clear pattern, contains a dozen long narrative passages that stand out like detached stories. Its characters are stylized social types rather than conventional realistic portraits: Ben Coventry, blinded during the War, generous, humane, intelligent, helpless, is a symbol of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boston Gothic | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

The play itself has been little altered. The familiar rabble-rousing harangue of Mark Antony is still the potent climax. The terror of the situation and the violence of the passions released by the demagogue are starkly symbolized by the casting of a gigantic shadow of the orator high up...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/26/1938 | See Source »

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