Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been looking at the skies for 32 years, has the great totality total of 15 min. (six eclipses) to his credit. He has had to travel 90,000 mi. to do it. Had he attended every instance of the sun's darkening since 1900 he would have a grand total of 68.1 min. and might have traveled as far as the eclipse-causing moon (238,857 mi.) and back again. It was with much satisfaction that he radioed to Science Service in Washington that, as director of the U. S. expedition to witness last week's solar eclipse...
...over for a year, Novelist Grey decided that he had been insulted by this refusal, so grossly insulted that he would never go back to Arizona again. He said he would not even write any more of his famed Arizona stories (Under the Tonto Rim, Roping Lions in the Grand Canyon, etc.). He charged neighboring hunters with spreading untrue, derogatory tales about his sportsmanship. Said he: "In twelve years my whole bag of game has been five bears, three bucks and a few turkeys. I have written 15 novels with Arizona background. Personally it cost...
Long white gloves, high silk hats, flashlight photographers, society reporters, scribbling furtively on folds of paper, critics mooning in their aisle seats-these adjuncts of the advent of another season of grand opera were this week on view in the opera houses of Chicago and Manhattan. In Philadelphia they had appeared the week before...
...bataille des dames (battle of ladies). The time had come, he said, when every lady with a lot of money felt that she should have her own opera company. His reference was to three local troupes which had announced ambitious schedules at the beginning of the season: the Pennsylvania Grand Opera Company (president: Mrs. Houston Dunn) which succumbed with the stock-market crash in the fall; his own Philadelphia Civic Opera Company (president: Mrs. Henry M. Tracy) which had bravely survived six seasons; the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company (president: Mrs. Joseph Leidy...
Left alone in the field (save for the visits of Manhattan's Metropolitan) the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company opened its season with a sold-out house and a smart list of boxholders which included names like Curtis, Biddle, Lorimer and Pianist Josef Hofmann. Aïda was the first opera with Italian Tenor Aroldo Lindi, Soprano Anne Roselle, Contralto Cyrena Van Gordon, Conductor Emil Mlynarski. Le Jongleur de Notre Dame followed last week with Mary Garden again casting her curious spell as the pale, questioning little juggler, Baritone Chief Caupolican (a South American Indian) as the kindly, understanding monk...