Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paper is no longer I. P. & P.'s major concern. The second P., which stands for Power, is the biggest one. This week President Hoover was to touch a golden key at the White House, starting the water wheels and generators of the biggest waterpower plant in New England, on the Connecticut River between St. Johnsbury, Vt. and Littleton, N. H., a 216,000-h.p. project built by New England Power Association (I. P. & P. subsidiary). -Distributed by Graphic Syndicate to Philadelphia News, Detroit Illustrated, New Haven Times-Union...
...azure skies, the golden...
...Jochanaan's execution (unlike Mary Garden in the same role) she was all animal thirsting for blood, listening for death struggle sounds that did not come. When she raised the cloth on the silver platter to kiss the dead lips listeners sat in amazement at the incompatible hate and golden singing. When the curtain swung down on her violent death it was a long moment before a hand was lifted in applause. Then began an ovation lasting a quarter of an hour with repeated curtain calls for Jeritza and Conductor Gaetano Merola...
...endeavor to explain Mr. Babbitt's humanism here would be impertinent. Whoever takes his course may see for himself, if he likes. Suffice it to say that Mr. Babbitt is a preacher of proportion and the golden mean. Like the ancient Greeks, he takes as his motto: "Nothing too much". All external standards, such as religion, he throws overboard, and appeals to the wisdom of human experience as the only rule to order life. He shuns as the plague all the emotional ecstasies that break down the rigid self-discipline which is his prescription for all humanity...
Most incongruous feature of opera-of all arts the most, wooden-is to watch ponderous paunchy bravos woo and buss great overstuffed divas whilst golden notes soar sonorously. Last week, when John Forsell, onetime (1909-10) baritone with Manhattan's Metropolitan, now chief of Stockholm's Royal Opera House, ordered all his bulky singers to reduce, U. S. operagoers were grateful to him for articulating what had been often thought but seldom said. Fat Swedish stars protested, saying that bulk aids musical beauty and that they sing best when they are well fed. But the order remained...