Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little prayers and grace at table at the kindergarten or preschool, which relieved her very much as she wanted her child to pray but had not taught her any prayers because she did not like "Now, I lay me" and thought the Lord's Prayer too long and difficult lor a child...
After three years on the Keith circuit, the sisters returned to Manhattan. Carmela determined to study seriously. William Thorner, her teacher, happened also to hear Rosa who, nothing daunted, undertook to sing the difficult Casta diva aria from Norma. Thorner interrupted her in the middle of it to call in his friend Enrico Caruso. Caruso prophesied that in two years Rosa would be singing with him. Six months later, as Rosa Ponselle, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut. Impresario Gatti-Casazza picked the name...
...operas which might never have been revived if there had not been a voice with the range and flexibility of Ponselle's. She has still much to learn. She will never have the grace of Bori, the subtlety of Garden, the force of Jeritza. She has heavy Italian features, difficult to disguise. But her voice, critics almost without exception say, is the greatest to be heard today. It has brought her glamorous reward. Her concert earnings average $3,000 an appearance, her broadcasts $5,000 apiece...
...Prostitutes of some education are much more difficult to deal with. They have an aversion to learning a trade. To make them come to us it is necessary to send out special brigades of agitators...
Into Tibet, into the southern part of Morocco, hitherto difficult of access, up the Andes, went colporteurs. Some things they took in exchange for Scriptures: soap, wool, toasted chestnuts, boiled potatoes, fish, bananas. Russia is the only land where the Society is not countenanced. In nearby countries it finds its sales increased. In France, home of many an expatriate, the Society sold 39,261 Bibles in Russian...