Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after friend Kreisler has fiddled himself into a state of complete exhaustion, and total poverty, let me suggest that he hand his blue glasses to any musical genius from Italy, except Mussolini, with instructions to do his dangest with grand opera...
...Their Majesties alighted a sea of brightly scrubbed faces beamed, broad lips opened wide and powerful lungs roared that grand old Dutch cheer, not "Long live the Queen," but "Hold the sea! HOLD...
...Gioconda - Cielo e Mar and L'Elisire d'Amore - Una Furtiva Lagrima by Beniamino Gigli (Victor, $2) - Gallery grand opera by the tenor who does it best. Chosen by Victor as its May "Great Record-of-the-Month...
...made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. After the War he fought in Russia for the Bolsheviks. Twice he has been condemned to death; by the Bolsheviks, by a Chinese secret society. Now he lives in Paris, on a boat in the Seine. Other books: The Son of the Grand Eunuch, Elegant Infidelities of Madame Li Pei Fou, The Woman Who Commanded...
...South Pole was mostly that. Says he: "Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion . . . you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg." Explorer Cherry-Garrard, educated at Winchester, Christ Church, Oxford, is a noted sportsman, won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley...