Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Home-Grown Wagnerian. At first by default, and increasingly by merit, Helen Traubel has become the greatest Wagnerian soprano singing in the world today. She is the first great soprano at the Met to sing Wagner and nothing but (Flagstad sang Beethoven's Fidelia). She is also the first American-born Brünnhilde and Isolde who didn't study at the Wagnerian shrine at Bayreuth. Until 1940, when she sang in Canada, Helen Traubel had never been out of the U.S. She has never crossed the Atlantic...
...also pointed out that, unlike many other universities, Harvard had maintained its schedule of promotions and merit increases all during...
...volunteer service, whose merit attracted many during the war years, will reach out again for aid on November 11 and 12 when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Phillips Brooks House jointly conduct a blood bank drive. Anyone alive to events during the recent conflict, whether in or out of service, appreciates the value of the conveniently located blood bank, such is familiar with the rudiments of blood giving. Keeping abreast with the Armed Forces and many other states, Massachusetts is building up a blood reservoir which is on tap without cost to any resident of the State including those...
...variety of dramatic experiences not available at your neighborhood theatre. Others explain the aim of a repertory company as the staging of classic vehicles, well-known, well-read, but seldom seen--such as this company has done in "Henry VIII" and will do with "John Gabriel Borkman." The actual merit of the production is secondary to the fact that interested spectators are seeing, in ideal repertory offerings, things that were destined for the stage and have, by changes in modern tastes and temperaments, been relegated to the closet...
...theme that even the brashest of moviemakers will rush to handle, and readers who found Don Birnam a sympathetic figure are not likely to have any such fellow feeling for John Grandin. Many readers who got a wallop out of Weekend will have to judge Valor on its literary merit alone, and they will find it medium-to-poor...