Word: flourish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still suggest a certain brave dig nity. Her Un bel di vedremo was perfectly patterned to describe Butterfly's faith in Lieutenant Pinkerton's return, her defiant refusal to believe that he could have for gotten her. Other Butterflies have sung the aria with greater flourish, built it up to a more flagrant climax. Susanne Fisher's voice, though not powerful, is true, clear, delicately expressive. She uses it with discriminating taste and intelligence. To prepare for a role she plays through the entire opera score a dozen times be fore she sings a note. Such painstaking...
...passenger car industry. Ignored were trucks & buses, the output of which in better days rolled up a wholesale value of more than $500,000,000 yearly and last year was worth $388,000,000. Last week for the first time the truck industry had an opportunity to flourish its record...
...college, they would have both a suitable place to meet and a coach who, as a member of the Department of Public Speaking, would receive his salary from the college and would give his time largely to the needs of his dialectic warriors. Then probably debating would flourish as it should, and would be able to persuade more men to partake of its manifold blessings...
...short time ago friends of democracy were very much on the defensive, and shaken by the rise of dictators under various political labels. Now, however, there is cause for revived hope and aggressiveness of democrats everywhere. Mosley does not flourish in Britain, Huey Long is dead, and France junks its politico-military menaces. In those countries where democracy has struck its roots down deep over the course of centuries, hybrid foreign importations of the Stalin or Hitler variety wither in an unfavorable clime...
Fanfare. Since last week's flight was the first act of a performance for which they have been rehearsing for four years, Pan American officials decided to start it with a flourish. Because the China Clipper's cargo was entirely mail, Postmaster General Farley was asked to play the lead in the hour's program. Other speaking parts were taken by Pan American's President Juan Terry Trippe, California's Governor Frank Finley Merriam, Hawaii's Governor Joseph Boyd Poindexter, Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, the Philippine's President Manuel Quezon, China Clipper...