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Even with a Metropolitan contract, Flagstad was loath to leave Norway. She had married Henry Johansen, a wealthy lumber merchant. The Christmas holiday season was on. She liked to ski and she dreaded new audiences. But if she was nervous before her debut, no one at the Metropolitan observed any sign of it. She knitted placidly before she went on stage, knitted between scenes. No high-strung person could have endured the ten weeks which followed. She had sung Elsa (Lohengrin) only in Norwegian, Elisabeth (Tannhäuser) only in Swedish. Now she had to relearn both in German...
Certainly we can hope for no higher rating than a funky nation after announcing that we would be ". . . loath to believe that, either of them would resort to other than pacific means as a method of dealing with this controversy. . . ." then advising our citizens in Ethiopia to leave that country...
...came. He is a noted gunman, and the Department of Labor's free ride back to Italy fits his plans perfectly. With his gains of violence he can settle down under an olive tree and live happily ever after. But the gunman's ex-colleagues are loath to have him go. Two of them board the train, quietly pass the word among the passengers that, as witnesses to a murder, their stay in the U. S. will be indefinitely lengthened. After the murder, Nowhere Bound rather surprisingly turns from pretty good melodrama to pretty good farce...
...loath was onetime President Deschanel of France to leave the privacy of his own railway compartment that in 1920, while relieving himself through an open window, he fell out of the train in his pajamas and ruined his political career. No such clumsy timidity bothers the little Tsar of Bulgaria. Far too poor to have a private train of his own, Boris III is apt to be all over the public trains he uses. Like the late great Albert of Belgium, Tsar Boris is an impassioned locomotive engineer, likes to spend much time in the engine cab, although...
...Crosby in the Churchman. His main point: that unless the Episcopal Church sets up a true archbishopric it erects "a bedizened scarecrow that will be the laughing stock of every church in Christendom." And a true archbishop would wield powers which many a U. S. bishop would be loath to give...