Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt replied that she had already written her son about it. "Of course," she added, "everybody is entitled to his own opinion. I am merely asking his. I would never dream of doing more. Jimmy must have reasons which seem sufficient to him. They wouldn't seem sufficient to me." She reiterated her credo to the newshawks: "I do not believe a civilization ought to be based on the labor of children...
Elgar's fame as a composer reached London by way of Germany. The Dream of Gerontius had been given in the provinces but no one thought to call it a masterpiece until Conductor Hans Richter presented it in Düsseldorf and Richard Strauss acclaimed it. The Enigma Variations, Elgar's best-known symphonic work, was Richter's piece de resistance when he toured England in 1899. Five years later Elgar was knighted and the new King Edward pronounced Pomp and Circumstance "a very fine...
...army on the march. Songs in Wonder Bar are superior to those which Al Jolson sang in its stage version in Manhattan four years after he made the first successful talkie. The Jazz Singer. Most tuneful of them are "Goin' to Heaven on a Mule." "Why do I Dream those Dreams." In "Goin' to Heaven on a Mule" the rostrum in the Wonder Bar represents everything from a Negro cabin on the canebrake to a night club in Paradise with Gabriel performing on a saxophone. Like other recent Warner Brothers productions. Wonder Bar contains more than its quota...
Almost to a man the docile little politicians of Japan's House of Representatives rose in their places last week to give Japan for 1934-35 a general's dream of what a budget ought to be. Of its 2,112,000,000 yen ($633,600,000), full 44% went to the Army and Navy, an alltime peacetime high. The Army got 450,000,000 yen ($135,000,000), the Navy 488,000,000 yen ($146,400,000). Hardly a murmur was raised against this gigantic bill for war weapons and men to use them. Indeed, Foreign Minister...
...says that we must submit to "a completely army-like, nationalist discipline even in peace time," and this also requires "a certain degree of regimental opinion." In short adoption of the new order means the definite and final end of democracy as anything but a myth and a dream...