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Word: grands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Goring drastically pointed up the Four-Year Plan to embrace agriculture, announced that the Reich would grant farmers much vaster annual subsidies than ever before- 200,000,000 marks ($80,000,000) in 1937, increasing progressively to 300,000,000 ($120,000,000) in 1940 and making a grand four-year total of 1,000,000,000 ($400,000,000). Thus was inaugurated for Nazis a sort of inverted AAA whereby German farmers will be paid to produce crops & not to limit them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: AAA | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...Tulsa, Okla., haled into court. Tom Bailey told Police Judge A. A. Hatch that he did not know whether or not he was intoxicated when picked up by police. Asked Judge Hatch: "Did everything sort of wave up and down? . . . Did you feel mighty happy and grand, and love every one in the whole world? And did you also feel like you could whip the pants off any mother's son alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 5, 1937 | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...seasons, the Metropolitan Opera Association has come to Boston for one week of grand opera. Previous successes have induced the Association to remain here for ten days this year, presenting a total of twelve performances. This evening is the opening night and it is expected that many a top hat is being dusted off for the occasion, and many a tiara removed from its safe deposit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 4/1/1937 | See Source »

...part no less grueling than that of Brunhilde in the Ring which she is also to sing here in Boston. The role of Tristan is to be taken by the well known Wagnerian tenor, Lauritz Melchior. This part is without doubt one of the most thankless in all grand opera from the acting standpoint, for during the entire last act, Mr. Melchior is forced to toss feverishly on a couch in death agonies while at the same time singing a long and rather dull part. Few tenors have been able to bounce up and down in a realistically painful manner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 4/1/1937 | See Source »

...Shavitch for reducing opera's excess baggage, putting it within the reach of the masses. For in place of a cumbersome chorus and orchestra, Conductor Shavitch used sound-film. When the Toreador Song rang out powerfully, only 16 were singing it from the stage. In celluloid, the Moscow Grand Opera Chorus made them sound like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Synchro-Opera | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

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