Word: refered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe that this is an error. You probably refer to Carter's Chickery, Eldorado, ILL., which is one of the Grand Ole Opry sponsors...
...addition, I note that you refer to me as a "soldier of fortune." Usually, as I understand it, such a term is generally applied to a mercenary soldier, or one who has sold his services to any government for compensation. You may be interested to know that I never sold my services to any country, and that I always served as a volunteer, receiving the same compensation as officers of similar rank in the respective armies. And further, I never volunteered for any country unless I was sincerely in sympathy with their particular cause. It appears to me that...
Result: the Democrats, split, lost the State, and bumbling Republican Arthur James took over the political mess known as Pennsylvania. This year Joe Guffey, to whom unkind fellows refer as "the greatest Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania in 60 years,"* is in an exceedingly tough spot. First, he must be nominated, and the machine leaders he defied two years ago will have none of him. Last week the Democratic State Committee met in Harrisburg to pick a candidate to succeed Joe. From Washington came hurried word that another wide-open Democratic split would be disastrous. So, after whooping through a Roosevelt...
...Catholic diocese of Poland, with more than 7,000,000 Catholics, will soon become a land of infidels. . . . This extermination is continuing without interruption and takes the shape of perverse sadism. ... It is a real extermination, conceived with diabolic evil and executed with unequalled cruelty. . . . We cannot help but refer to this as one of the most serious enormities of all history...
Heldentenor. Lauritz Melchior is not a natural tenor. Jealous Italians refer to him sniffily as a misplaced baritone. Actually, he is an authentic example of a very 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...