Word: raggedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Francisco Symphony's conductor, now spelling Arturo Toscanini with the New York Philharmonic, stayed in California long enough this autumn to open the symphony season in San Francisco's new War Memorial Opera House, to win $25 from the beating California gave Stanford at football. Then he hurried...
The sudden lift of the curtain, the harsh blare of the brasses establish perfectly the mood for Elektra's maniacal lust to avenge the death of her father Agamemnon, murdered in his bath. Soprano Gertrude Kappel, ragged and disheveled, long black hair flying, scuttled, slunk and pranced around the...
Into one of the building's obscure back entrances that evening, hulking, bearded Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza walked slowly, tiredly. He followed a narrow, twisting corridor to a door marked PRIVATE, went in, hung up his big, loose overcoat, his black, broad-brimmed felt hat. He was early, but...
Far off in the prairies, over ragged mountains, through black tunnels, the silver gray wires hum from pole to pole, as they streak their messages across the country. Under great lakes of cold water, across rivers, and rolling on the bottom of black oceans, the dirty, slimy cables tremble with...
Fighting perhaps for their lives, certainly for King and Country, burly bobbies used their truncheons with just one idea, to crack as many crowns as possible. "This correspondent saw one ragged, emaciated man beaten over the head until he was unconscious," cabled United Pressman Herbert Moore. "When he, an old...