Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While Heldentenor Carl Hartmann continued to win moderate favor as Tannhäuser and Tristan (Flagstad was the Isolde), the remainder of the debutant crop to date caused little excitement. Zinka Milanov (née Kunc), whose three-year contract had been promised only after she had agreed to learn three Italian roles and reduce 25 Ib. in three months, made her U. S. debut in II Trovatore (Leonore). Nicola Moscona, Greek basso, attracted the whole Greek colony to his Ramfis (Aïda). Sturdy American Baritone John Charles Thomas (Germont) saved a Traviata (with Vina Bovy and Nino Martini...
With a specific favor usually in mind, novena-makers at Our Lady of Sorrows write their petitions on blanks handed them before their novena begins. Favorite petitions are for good health, for employment, for souls in purgatory, but many a petitioner is interested in matters like the health of the Pope, world peace, success in studies, a happy marriage or happy death. According to last fortnight's list of petitions, more novena-makers are anxious to find a "Catholic Boy Friend" (377) than a "Catholic Girl Friend...
...producer who refuses to sign the code must pay a prohibitive tax of 19½% on his gross sales. So far 6,108 of the 6,315 U. S. bituminous mines have signed up, for coal producers, desperate after their many lean years, are nearly unanimous in favor of price fixing...
...example set in the Stalin district was rapidly followed all over the Soviet Union, candidates everywhere withdrawing in favor of the candidate favored by the Communist Party and the Stalin State. In all Russia last week there were only two constituencies in which there was more than one candidated he will be elected anyway!" President Kalinin recently retorted (TIME, Dec. 6): "It is a grave mistake to think this. ... If in our country in a number of places candidates withdraw their names for the benefit of some candidate, it is the result of their social kinship and common political purpose...
Folowing Platt's dismissal from action, the Feslermen gained on the leaders until the score stood 37-36 in Brown's favor with seven minutes of play remaining...