Word: pinching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proved herself a sure singing actress, strode the stage regally as Amneris in Aïda, personified devotion when she sang Brangäne in Tristan and Isolde. One of the season's highlights was when Wettergren sang Carmen (in Swedish), her reward for standing by to pinch-hit for Rosa Ponselle. The U. S. soprano worked like a demon to impersonate the Spanish gypsy. Box-officially she succeeded but critics were unimpressed...
...taken suddenly ill one day; within a few hours the young violinist stepped into his place. Four years ago Arturo Toscanini was unable to keep an engagement in Philadelphia; young Eugene Ormandy had another unexpected chance. He acquitted himself so creditably that he was called to Minneapolis to pinch-hit for ailing Henri Verbrugghen. There he remained...
...case of neuritis, resigned as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal. The Emperor gave the job to the man Makino suggested: Viscount Admiral Makoto Saito, 77, one-time Premier. This tough but mellow oldster with a portentous pair of jowls can talk as moderately as Makino, but in a pinch he usually knuckles under to the militarists...
...signs his letters to the London Times, is an enlightened, erudite divine, son of a onetime headmaster to Oxford's Balliol, lectured in philosophy at Queen's, became headmaster of Repton before he ascended to the bishopric of Manchester. That northern see, with its industrial pinch, led Dr. Temple politically to the Left of his colleague of Canterbury, into the Labor Party and on to the presidency of its Workers Educational Association. With the enthusiasm of a practical social reformer who enjoys playing pool with settlement house moppets, His Grace of York is a leading spirit in "Copec...
...foregoing tax schedules, Democratic members of the Ways & Means Committee became alarmed at reports that their bill was generally considered a dismal disappointment as a revenue-raiser. To stop this criticism they announced they would raise surtaxes not from the $150,000 but from the $50,000 level thereby pinch 7,000 instead of 1,000 taxpayers, thereby boost Federal revenue by an extra...