Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Antonio Scotti, baritone, returned from a summer in Italy to begin his 29th season with the Metropolitan Opera Co., Manhattan. Asked which was the "greatest" soprano with whom he had ever sung, said he: "But most of them are still alive! Do you think I'm crazy...
...trip. President Coolidge stood above the Grand Canyon. Observers wondered whether a man whose greatest quality of tact was a stubborn silence, often ill-timed, would now fit the circumstances so as to be impressive. After regarding the canyon for several minutes, the President wisely sighted a telescope on the opposite side, the bottom of the canyon, birds wheeling below...
...patriotic without being provincial. ("This is potentially the greatest music-loving country on earth. . . . Europe can still teach us much. ... So far as government interest in music is concerned, ours is not even civilized judged by European standards...
Career. Anton Smetona, now 53 years of age, is conceded to be one of the greatest Lithuanian patriots of all time. For 20 years he worked for Lithuanian nationalism and independence against the oppression of Tsarist Russia. A diminutive man, dark, with narrow, beady eyes, a stubby goatee spread over his chin and a bushy, drooping moustache hanging orderly from his upper lip, he is an excellent, forceful speaker, sound, indurate, potent...
...This concert marks the end of the tenth season of Mr. Goldman's concerts," further stated Mr. Roulstone. Audience and bandmen cheered when reminded that Sir Thomas Lipton had called Mr. Goldman's band "the greatest in the world." Graciously Mr. Gold man uttered thanks, stated that in ten years of concerts he had never failed to be present, mentioned the names of Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Gug genheim, Mr. & Mrs. Murry Guggenheim, whose gifts support Goldman concerts, presented to Bandsman Del Staigers ("the world's greatest cornetist") a golden cornet...