Word: eclat
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...police band, moving pictures shown against a screen hung on the outside of the old church, and within the old building a continuous vaudeville show, including a donkey educated to pick numbers out of a hat, hot-dog and pop stands, while plenty of red lemonade added to the eclat of the occasion. The event took place in New York city, where the new four million dollar Broadway temple, under the leadership of Dr. C. F. Reisner is, according to the advertisements, to "put God on Broadway...
...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 comes Wagner like a Titan, mightily marching...
...case. Also, being familiar with police methods, he may have surmised that he was being invited into a trap; and acting on the theory that he was being given rope with which to hang himself, he determined no doubt that his moral demise should at least be accomplished with eclat...
...front, where we are stationed, and gone back to our base, when a Boche avion passed over the camp and dropped four bombs on it. When the first fell Henry hurried out to see if any one was hurt, and, as he left the tent, was struck by an eclat from the second which made a ghastly wound in his hip and thigh. Fortunately one of the ambulances was near and he was hurried to the hospital and operated on with all possible speed...
...defeating the Yale News 15 to 8 at Soldiers Field yesterday morning, the CRIMSON Clouters brought to a flushingly brilliant end a season of great eclat. The big red team was up to its usual standard, and with Graves, Stiles and Ingram in their old-time form, there was little hope for the Elis. Nevertheless, the game was pretty close until the CRIMSON'S half of the ninth, when "Frozen" Isham, the blue twirler, lost his coolness. He was replaced by Meek, who, living up to his name, handed the local heroes seven runs...