Word: mercifully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...singularly unequipped for his "personal" chats with the leaders of other nations. During his November visit to Paris he disappointed French radio listeners by saying "I can speak no French." Last week he showed that he had at least learned something. Saying farewell to M. Daladier he beamed: "Merci, thank you, Merci, monsieur, beaucoup, beaucoup, beaucoup...
...Opera. Seven hundred schoolchildren sang at the Saturday matinee. Trained adults were well equal to Mendelssohn's Elijah, to Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Conductor Eugene Goossens had prepared three premieres especially for the occasion: Atalanta in Calydon, skillfully designed by Granville Bantock; La Belle Dame sans Merci, a rambling peroration by Cyril Scott; a sonorous Stabat Mater by Cincinnati's own Martin G. Dumler...