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After a hard struggle he broke through the phalanx but not until he had been subjected to the rigorous ordeal of receiving the pleas of the 47 lovestruck maidens. Before starting on his homeward trek he addressed the girls in a few passionate but well-modulated phrases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe, Wellesley Maidens Hunt Men in Leap Year Rites | 3/1/1940 | See Source »

...rare type of singer: the true Wagnerian Heldentenor (heroic tenor). Most tenors have fairly light voices: their honey-voiced wailing is orchestrated to an accompaniment that will not drown them out. But Wagner had no use for such lightweights: the true Heldentenor must be able to out-boom a phalanx of trombones. Richard Wagner's heroes are strenuous fellows, who would willingly break a blood vessel to get to Walhalla, and Wagner saw to it that their tones should ring with desperate effort. Prince of Heldentenors is Lauritz Melchior. His triple-brass larynx (which earns him the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Great Dane | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...gasoline, motor cars, machinery, motion picture films was announced. Syndical labor laws were ordered written, with labor unions being organized on the approved Fascist model. Strikes will be outlawed, the unions will be controlled by the Government. New contracts will be written for tenant farming, and the Spanish Phalanx's program for redistribution of some large estates will be carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Outside, Inside | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...than there is a phalanx of talent returning in events not touched by graduation: Torby Macdonald in the 220; Gene Clark, Dave Simboll, and Bob Nichols in the two-mile; Don Donahue, Maze Fernald, and Roger Schafer in the hurdles; Partlow in the broad jump; Marshall MacIsaac and Steve Madey in the vault; Downing and Howle Mendel in the shot and Nat Heard in the discus; and Big Bill Shallow in the hammer throw...

Author: By Spencer Kiew, | Title: Crimson Cinders Blessed With One Of The Best Harvard Track Contingents | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

...money (TIME, April 3). But when the farm bill came to a vote, the city men did not make good. New York's radical Vito Marcantonio and Chicago's old Adolph Sabath kept back their forces, without which the farm Democrats were powerless against a strong Republican phalanx. The parity payments perished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: No Log-Roll | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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