Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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August: The Premier in his character of Worker, Driver, Leader recuperated in the grand manner by taking the cure at Vichy where go so many French...
...orchestra tuning up under Conductor Karl Riedel, echoes of an audience which included many pleased youngsters. Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel was the opera, first whole performance to be broadcast from the Metropolitan. Composer Deems Taylor, official narrator, sat in a little glass booth in one of the grand tier boxes, describing music and action to radiauditors. In another soundproof booth were an expert with score in hand, ready with warnings to tone down drum beats and bass notes, and an engineer watching the volume-registering needle...
...flag of silk and waved it with practiced enthusiasm. Then cameramen photographed her stuffing it in her bosom. She said she had worn that flag next to her heart ever since she departed the U. S. ten years ago. "Viva America!" she shrilled. "America is my one grand passion!" She could shrill, too. She was Luisa Tetrazzini...
...president were given as Coleman Crenshaw and Thomas L. Hall, both of Salt Lake City, but last week no details were available on how they proposed to do their financing. The proposed Denver Pacific, it was stated, would follow the Colorado River Valley through Glenwood Springs, Rifle, Palisade and Grand Junction, would cross Utah, passing through Moab, and would touch San Bernardino, Calif. New territory would be opened, said the company's sponsors; the route from Denver to the sea would be shortened...
...French-speaking and German-speaking population of Boston, while others transcend the language of their origin and recommend themselves to any intelligent audience. Such a film is "Das Lied vom Leben," with which the Fine Arts Theatre is relieving that vacation surfeit of Hollywood happy-endings and Grand Rapids repartee...