Word: partes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Belgrade was as sensitive as Bucharest to the Allied-German string-pulling in her part of Europe. Yugoslavia's most immediate problem was copper. The Yugoslav copper mines, largest of Europe, are operated by French and British companies which no longer sell to Germany. Moreover, a French trade delegation is scheduled to arrive soon in Belgrade with the explicit purpose of buying up all this copper output. The special Yugoslav dilemma is whether to expropriate the mines and let the output go to Germany, in which case the country may risk an Allied blockade, or whether...
...inflicts on men a total risk, the abandonment of all the gentle things of life. Men support, needless to say, the heaviest and most terrible part of the sacrifice. Nevertheless, I cannot keep myself from pitying the women who want to be brave, but who do not know how, and who must invent, each one for herself, a personal heroism...
...sweetest, Metropolitan directors always chose a throatier Teuton for the job. Last week at the Chicago Opera, 54-year-old Veteran Martinelli finally got his chance. Playing opposite buxom Kirsten Flagstad's bosom, his white hair covered with a blond wig, Tenor Martinelli sang his part without a misplaced guttural. But between towering Soprano Flagstad and the booming orchestra led by Flagstad's private accompanist, Edwin McArthur, Martinelli's long song of love was pretty well drowned out. To cap all, just before the final curtain Soprano Flagstad took the whole spotlight, and Martinelli...
...chuckles for all. Once he put on an accent like Music Master Walter Damrosch's, piano-lectured theme by theme on Three Little Fishies. He embroiders five-note themes tossed up by audiences until they sound like Wagner. His Bach Goes to Town, a swing classic, is now part one of a pentateuch that includes Mendelssohn Mows 'em Down, Mozart Matriculates, Haydn Takes to Ridin', Debussy in Dubuque...
Episcopal Bishop William Lawrence of Massachusetts was convinced that war was "wickedness, useless and stupid." Against such teachings, Dr. William Thomas Manning wrote to the New York Times that "Our moral sense as a nation is dulled. . . . Our present lack of national spirit is due also in part to a vast amount of well-meant but mistaken and misleading and really unchristian teaching about peace." Soon Dr. Manning, Bishop Lawrence, Episcopal Layman George Wharton Pepper, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick and others signed a trumpeting manifesto: "Sad is our lot if we have forgotten how to die for a holy cause...