Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlantico. Technical commander of the flight, organizer and executive is Col. Pellegrini, 44, seasoned naval officer, whose wife is the U. S.-born daughter of Theodore Kaschmann. Metropolitan Opera baritone of 20 years ago. But no other man calls himself, or is called, commander from the moment Italo Balbo steps upon the scene. Glory or blame will fall squarely upon the shoulders of that amazing man whose worshippers call him L'Atlantico...
...this piece emphatically deny that it is intended to present a biography of the late Jeanne Eagels. Their denial appears to remove the last excuse for the production, for surely it is not in itself a proper vehicle for talented, orange-haired Francine Larrimore (Let Us Be Gay, Brief Moment...
...nothing to offer but fog. It was apparently not without purpose that President Lowell urged last Sunday, "one must endeavor to distinguish between the enduring and the temporary, between the things essential to the framework of every good human society, and the expedients useful for the moment, not letting these impair the permanent structure...
...Hitlerite Germany and dares not commence to disarm unless her security is guaranteed. In Geneva, almost unnoticed last week in London's preparations for the World Economic Conference (see p. 16), the World Disarmament Conference adjourned amid utter gloom to meet again July 3. Up at the last moment popped Japanese Ambassador Naotake Sato to read a 2,000-word declaration from Tokyo...
...Arturo Toscanini had decided not to come to Bayreuth this summer to conduct at the Wagner Festival. Over and over she read the telegram which Toscanini had sent from Florence. "The lamentable events which have wounded my feelings both as man and as artist have not up to this moment changed, despite my hopes. It is my duty today to break the silence that I have imposed upon myself for the last two months and to inform you that for my, for yours, and for everybody else's tranquillity it is better not to think any more...