Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ability to soar dramatically or modulate to a mahogany pianissimo, invested his role with an air of sly innuendo that it often lacks. As Desdemona, velvet-voiced Soprano Victoria de los Angeles took her time warming up, but was in soaring form by the third act's grand ensemble scene; her heavy acting was forgotten as she gave the Willow Song and Ave Maria in Act IV a purity and emotional gloss that held the house in a misty-eyed hush...
...Herald thus paid heavily for its own hasty scorekeeping on Prosecutor Brautigam, who in 1956 objected to charges brought by a grand jury against a local judge on the ground that they were based on "imputation and innuendo...
...trade slurs-while their sister (Mildred Natwick) waves an olive branch -they lay siege to the holdings in the family vault via the skeletons in the family closet. Out, eventually, clatter illegitimacies and suicides and a crushed father image. And the disinherited playboy, at the end, has wangled twenty grand, only to spurn...
...Eisenhower Administration's biggest antitrust suit to date, a federal grand jury charged RCA with conspiring to restrain the manufacture, sale and distribution of radio, television, radar and other electronic apparatus, and of monopolizing radio patent licensing in the U.S. Said the Government: "By this criminal indictment, we seek to restore competition in this significant industry so that all competitors of RCA can compete with it at every level from the research laboratory to the sale of end products...
Look at the Facts. Previous efforts to convict RCA have had little luck, and a grand jury investigation of RCA affairs was quashed in 1952 by Democratic Attorney General James P. McGranery. But Republican Attorney General William Rogers' decision to go after RCA with a criminal indictment was undoubtedly encouraged by RCA's $10 million out-of-court settlement with Zenith, when it got a look at the facts Zenith had collected to support its charges of monopoly...