Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said to guarantee Austria against the long-threatened move of Germany to absorb the Vienna regime. In an oration virtually predicting European war at no distant date Benito Mussolini cried, "The wheels of Destiny are running fast!" He made world headlines once more with a new version of the grand old news that Italy's guilds or corporazioni are some day going to be invested with the powers of Italy's political Chamber of Deputies...
After this confusing announcement Dictator Mussolini stated with precision that his Fascist Grand Council is proceeding to nationalize all Italy's large industries so as to put the kingdom on a 100% prepared-for-European-war basis...
Last week, with an anglicized version of Wagner's Die Meistersinger, the Cincinnati Symphony ended its first season's attempt at presenting grand opera as a part of its regular schedule. Four Wagner operas had been given in all. Singers had been imported for principal roles. A group of local choristers had gladly sung for nothing. In Die Meistersinger last week the Eva was one of the comeliest young women who has ever made an operatic debut. She was Inez Gorman...
Hearing cheers that greeted Herbert Hoover's arrival at Grand Central Terminal, Manhattan, a woman pushed through the crowd to a trainman, asked: "Who is that...
Stern's freedom from the stuffier forms of British insularity, will applaud her enthusiasm over the Grand Canyon, the Mt. Wilson Observatory, the Marx Brothers. Litterateurs will admire her fondness for Jane Austen, deprecate her passion for the Elsie Dinsmore books. Newsy nosers will note her family were well-to-do London