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Word: fire (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...notes and then to wander around dazedly for several bars while she tried to come down again. Bjoerling's lyric tenor lacked the heroic style that the role of Radames demands, and Gobbi was far from his compelling best. Only Mezzo Simionato sang with the range, color and fire that her fans have come to expect of her. The voices of the supporting singers were lost in the huge house. "No wonder he can't sing," said one observer watching the messenger to the Pharaoh noiselessly moving his mouth. "The poor guy has just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Raggedy Ann in Aïda | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...dull and disapproves of his cunning, brutal father who lives as if life were a permanent state of war. With five devoted and adventurous companions, Odysseus builds a new boat and leaves his island home to begin a second odyssey, which is to end in a spiritual trial by fire and death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Homer Continued | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...large-scale blaze swept through the Bat Club last night, gutting the interiors of the second and third floors of the 53 Mt. Auburn St. building. A crowd of about 300 cheering, yelling students braved the below-freezing temperatures and crowded the streets for 45 minutes to watch the fire...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Fire Destroys Interior of Bat Club; Students Cheer Cambridge Firemen | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...Deputy fire chief William Cremins said that the amount of the loss could not be immediately determined, but would run into the thousands of dollars. The fire evidently started from a cigarette butt smouldering in a couch in the Club's TV room...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Fire Destroys Interior of Bat Club; Students Cheer Cambridge Firemen | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...Club members were in the building during the blaze; most of the members were attending a Punch at the Club Khayyam in Boston. "News of the fire came as a complete surprise to us," Paul J. Keaney '59, Social Chairman, said early this morning...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Fire Destroys Interior of Bat Club; Students Cheer Cambridge Firemen | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

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