Word: greats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...care and admiration. He was a full brother of Assault, who won the Triple Crown for King Ranch and Trainer Max Hirsch in 1946, and a son of Bold Venture, who won the Derby and Preakness in 1936. On his dam's side, he was descended from the great Equipoise...
...Monchsberg by the archbishops of Salzburg. "It is Mozart's turn," explained old Baron Heinrich Puthon, the festival's president. "Next year we will open with Fidelio so Beethoven will not be mad at us." For the Flute, the State Opera had no single great voice to offer, but its ensemble singing was highly polished; the acting had lightness and pace...
...Fidelio, the company had an unquestionably great voice, that of Guest Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, and Conductor Furtwngler gave a masterly reading of the score that won him a ten-minute personal ovation...
Eighteen months ago, when the Union government launched the African show on the world tour which has already taken it to London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris and Ottawa, Sekoto had already left Johannesburg and was in Paris. There he hoped to get a look at the works of the great European masters he revered, learn more about his craft...
...Graham Crookshank, rector of the village church of Bere Ferrers in Devonshire, England, likes to appraise his congregation as follows: "We are a lovely agricultural parish set between two rivers. I don't like to sound conceited, but my parishioners are a bit above average. We are really great friends...