Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dear, splendid England, with its clouds and its rain and its exquisite (though rare!) spring days, its summers without mosquitoes, and its foggy autumns. Do you feel grand and proud, British people, and realize that you are made of the salt of the earth ? and that you have a right to be even a little saucy...
...Swedish confidence in Sweden's fiscal strength was almost back to normal, there was still excitement in the Grand Hotel which faces King Gustav's palace across a small lagoon...
...Grand Hotel here is full of American observers, including a number of American brokers with whom Kreuger carried personal accounts. It is now known that Kreuger traded on six of the principal stock exchanges of the world, working through brokers who bought or sold gigantic blocks of stock for his account without mention of his name. It is even indicated that he bought such securities as oil stocks at times in order to bolster the market. He suffered gigantic losses in these operations and a large number of brokers who operated in his behalf are now seeking to collect what...
Chokopul (Conductor Leopold Stokowski) returned to his own people six weeks ago and as a souvenir of his travels he presented with the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company last week the world premiere of H. P., a "ballet-symphony" written five years ago by Carlos Chavez, the Mexican who guided him on his musical tour. Ravel's L'Heitre Espagnole served as curtain-raiser, a naughty opera concerning a clockmaker's insatiable wife, never intended for the literal English translation in which it was given. Then the curtain went up on a drop topped by the letters...
...conventional percussives. But most of H. P.'s music was too obtrusively harsh and loud for listeners on first hearing to detect the Indian tunes which he claims to be part & parcel of his work. It costs Mary Louise Curtis Bok a tidy sum to finance the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company's carefully prepared productions. When Stokowski conducts, the bills are still higher because he likes to use the full Philadelphia Orchestra. But Stokowski asked nothing for his tense, vital leadership last week. He returned from his Mexican travels in the best of humor, magnanimously announced that...