Word: regains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last interview given by famed Irish Hunger-Striker Terence McSweeney, Fleet Street began to take Miss Thompson seriously. Soon a roving correspondent for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, she achieved another resounding scoop by interviewing ex-Emperor Karl of Austria at the climax of his second attempt to regain the Hapsburg throne in 1922. By 1924 she was chief of the Public Ledger-New York Evening Post bureau in Berlin, where her liberal tendencies later ran afoul of the Nazi movement (TIME, Sept. 3, 1934). With this job the first stage of Dorothy Thompson's journalistic career was complete...
...Master's Voice" is more Edward Everett Horton. He gets into trouble with his wife, and then he gets out. But the present solution, which allows him to regain her wifely confidence by the simple expedient of his finding fame and fortune as a crooner, The Fireside Troubadour, and hence being in a position to dictate terms, gives a gay and irresponsible twist to this new story of the trials of Horton. Laura Hope Crews plays the repressed and libidinous aunt to Peggy Conklin, his estranged wife...
...Scarpia who sang with her dreaded the moment when she would spring on him, brandishing the knife. Her Isolde had a nobility so flamingly tense that when it was matched once with Toscanini's conducting a halt had to be called in rehearsal for the other singers to regain their repose. Critics still hold up the Fremstad Kundry as a model for that scraggly, wild-haired creature of the woods, who turns seductress for the second act. As the Walkure Brünnhilde she wore short, bushy hair, a cloak the color of the clouds, fairly flew about...
...what he says rather than the way he always looks when he says it. If you are not yet satiated. "Mr. Hobo" will prove amusing although the whole picture as usual is based on Arliss alone without much attention being paid to the supporting cast. His pictures would regain a lot of their popularity if they were filled in with interesting minors...
...However, I feel that we are justified in helping the farmer and can do it by giving him security, lower interest rates, and reduced taxes. This will please the farmer and the consumer and will enable us to regain our export markets. It will also not be particularly expensive contrasted with the direct and indirect costs of crop restriction...