Word: performer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this oath: "I swear before God, holy and omnipotent, that I will be true and obedient to the leader of the German people and the German State, Adolf Hitler, and that I will offer every sacrifice and service for the good of the German people. Furthermore that I will perform my duties as pastor in accord with the instructions issued by the German Evangelical Church and finally that I will serve my parish loyally...
...owes her life to a smart Spanish consul in Brussels who argued the Germans into sentencing her to life imprisonment instead of setting her before a firing squad. When Germany was beaten she went free and France gave her the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor. To perform her marriage last week up rose in the gorgeous robes of a Prince of the Church, Jean Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop of Paris...
Able to understand neither the language in which Shakespeare wrote the play nor that in which his Italian mummers were to perform it, Producer Reinhardt drilled his cast from a German script. For a stage, instead of the Piazza San Marco, where most Venetian festivals are held, he chose an obscure and humble piazza called Campo San Trovaso, bounded by a church, two 16th Century tenement houses and a small canal. Shylock's miserly squawkings came from a bridge still decorated by the arms of the Venetian Republic. Gratiano cruised about the canal in a medieval gondola. A garden...
...Army's airmail difficulties the committee delivered what will doubtless be the last and most authoritative word: "Army flyers trained for military missions could not be expected in the beginning to perform the duty of carrying the mail as efficiently as the experienced airmail pilots. The wholly unprecedented weather conditions in the early stages accentuated other difficulties. However, the Army flyers met this duty with fidelity which does them great credit as soldiers. After the initial period and the clearing of the weather the mail was carried with special credit to the Army Air Corps...
...going to do away with all this pomp and ceremony in everything." husked "Mitch." declaring that he will ask Ontario's Chief Justice to perform provincially viceregal functions. " I think the Lieutenant Governor should resign voluntarily. . . . The wonderful response to my appeal for clean government overwhelms...