Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Russian Dance -- Petrouchka--Grand Carnival--Nurses' Dance--The Bear and the Peasant Playing a Hand Organ--The Merchant and the Gypsies -- The Dance of the Coachmen and Grooms--The Masqueraders. Stravinsky Suite from "L'Oiseau de Feu", a Danced Legend
...bankers sent young, obscure Frank Hogan. He proceeded to put the case on the world's front pages by issuing subpoenas for ex-Presidents Roosevelt and Taft, putting them on the stand as character witnesses. Then he created a minor sensation by himself taking the witness stand. The grand jury refused to indict and the injunction against the Government was made permanent. From that day to this Frank Hogan has been general counsel for Riggs National Bank...
...flung down his pen and paced the floor. He recalled in his autobiography that once "my courage failed me completely, for I could not help asking myself whether the singer had yet been born who was capable of vitalizing this heroic female figure."* The stiffest test in all grand opera is the Brünnhilde of Götterdämmerung. That rôle made big news in Manhattan last week when it was sung for the first time by Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, the Metropolitan's new Norwegian import (TIME...
...first Brünnhilde was not easy to find, for most prima donnas impressed Wagner as being "silly, fastidious schoolgirls." He finally chose Amalie Materna, a big-chested Styrian with a grand manner and a zooming voice. At that first Bayreuth Festival in 1876 one of the Rhine maidens was a pretty young Jewess named Lilli Lehmann. Wagner wanted to adopt her but her mother, who knew the master well, objected. Lehmann was a light coloratura then and no one, least of all Wagner, suspected that she was soon to cultivate dramatic rôles and sing Brünnhilde...
...world. . . . I'll give you this, if you'll give me a kiss." Said stoic Shirley Temple, up three hours after bedtime: "Thank you . . . very much." When Claudette Colbert received her prize, she burst into tears. Said Clark Gable: "It's a grand and glorious feeling but I'll be wearing the same size hat tomorrow...