Word: mood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following as closely as it did President Coolidge's blunt declaration of U. S. independence in Navy-building (TIME, Nov. 19)-a declaration which restored Anglo-American "understanding" to a pre-War mood-the Britten proposal seemed, just possibly, to be a blunt Representative's effort to start all over again, without Presidential prolixity or diplomatic red-tape, and get an elementary subject thoroughly thrashed out between the plain people of two friendly countries...
...when the inspectors crashed his four bottles of choice liquor and told him that he would have to pay a big bill-$12,-919.25 in duties & fines-to recover all his property. William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards, onetime Collector of the Internal revenue, left the pier in a thoughtful mood, perhaps reflecting that other friends of his returning from Europe with goods to smuggle will not soon welcome his large and eloquent presence to meet them on the dock...
...Claudio Guastalla taken from Hauptmann's play, had its U. S. premiere at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Rautendelein was still its inspiration, Heinrich still the heckled human. And for it all Respighi had made lovely, lyric music. But operatic singers, operatic trappings rarely enhance a poetic mood. Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg as Rautendelein managed her bulk skillfully, sang difficult music easily, spent clear high notes' lavishly. But her appearance, her acting left little illusion. Nor could Giovanni Martinelli forget he was a tenor for the sake of the bellcaster. Dramatically it was Baritone Giuseppe de Luca...
...administration, Political Pundit Mark Sullivan of the arch-Republican New York Herald-Tribune ventured a respectful semi-prophecy: ". . . One cannot help feeling it is within possibility that Mr. Coolidge's high regard for his office may result, sometime before he retires, in something that may have the mood of George Washington's Farewell Address...
Because there lives in Italy today a poet who can make plays to match his music; because Italo Montemezzi sniffed the music in the lines, caught the magic of the mood and translated it for an orchestra; because tragedy melts easily into the rich, sombre voice of Rosa Ponselle; because Giovanni Martinelli was the popular tenor who loved her; because Ezio Pinza was the blind king and believed it; because, by reason of its beauty and its simplicity, L'Amore del Tre Re pleases the tutored and untutored, there was small fault found anywhere with the opening performance...