Word: ests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opera was Die Meistersinger and Eva who has always seemed a dull heroine suddenly bloomed forth as a charming young person, very much in love. Critics who marvel at the warm eloquence of Lotte Lehmann's singing, the contralto richness that holds to the high est notes, again complained because they had to wait so long to hear her at the Metropolitan. Chicago had her for a few performances in 1931 and 1932. From Vienna, Salzburg, Paris and London have come ecstatic reports of her Leonore in Fidelia, her Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier. New Yorkers who had heard...
...moment I can only commit myself on one point-it is a selachian [shark and ray family]. ... As for the individual characteristics of the monster, it is possible we are in the presence of an unknown species. C'est epatant...
...Marble Arch to plunk down safely in Hyde Park. Said the King, according to Palace officials: "I saw it from a window. I thought it would crash either on the roof or in the courtyard." ¶Day before, hard by Marble Arch, Their Majesties inspected London's new est luxury hotel, The Cumberland, which opened last week boasting 1,000 air-conditioned bedrooms.* To save George V from death by pneumonia his Bucking ham bedroom was air-conditioned at a cost of ?3,000 during one of London's persistent winter fogs (TIME, Dec. 17, 1928). ¶George...
...est mon Weygand?" Every morning when the late great Marshal Ferdinand Foch reached his fusty little office he would lean his umbrella in the corner, adjust his spectacles and call out as he sat down to work, "Et Maintenant, Où est mon Weygand...
...parents not only approved-they begged that M. le President sanction by special dispensation a child marriage in violation of French law. M. le President considered the reason: a pink and squawling babe safely born Aug. 28 at which time he weighed nine pounds. "Mon Dieu," murmured President Lebrun, "Est-ce possible...