Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less, Mr. Snowden's speech thunderstruck his party with the conviction that it will badly handicap Labor candidates at the next elections. It was Laborite William John Brown who most completely lost his head. "This Socialist Government." he roared, "has neither the guts to govern nor the grace...
...hall marks of adolescence strongly upon it. The fragility of phrase and the delicate tracing that is so large a part of "Messer Marco Polo" is not to be found here. In their place is only a rather obvious striving after effect. Where Byrne usually relies upon the grace of his style he now turns to situations for his strength. And the result is not impressive...
Throughout, Soprano Lucrezia Bori (the Duchess of Towers) acted with perfect grace, sang her English with very little accent. Hardworking, 56-year-old Tenor Edward Johnson was a sensitive, groping Peter, believably youthful. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett (Colonel Ibbetson) did a thrilling death. Joseph Urban's dream sets gave a happy, springtime effect...
Deems Taylor was a successful professional writer long before his music began to sell. His libretto, free from operatic archaisms, is excellent. Yet (as in other English opera) there were bits that sounded funny and forced. Contralto Grace Divine sang: "What a lovely ball!'' Contralto Marion Telva sang back: "You think so? Thank you!" Longer passages adapted themselves more smoothly to the flow of music, as in Peter's first-act narrative. Excerpt...
Searching last summer for reasons why Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. should not merge with Bethlehem Steel Corp., Cyrus Stephen Eaton's legal minions dragged Bethlehem's bonus system into public view. Reluctantly Mr. Grace testified that while his salary was a mere $12,000 a year, his 1929 bonus was more than $1,600,000 (TIME, Aug. 11). Last week he regretted more than ever that he had been forced to reveal this, for a group of stock-holders sued to have all bonuses paid since 1911 returned to the company by the eleven executives who received them...