Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eaten to hush Schiaparelli for a fewr days by "reserving judgment." Death claimed the bride's father few weeks ago, transformed the nuptials from a national pageant at Westminster Abbey into a "delightful private affair'' in the chapel of Buckingham Palace. H. R. H. slipped a ring of Welsh gold over Lady Alice's finger, repeating after the Archbishop of Canterbury: "With this ring I thee wed. With my body I thee worship. And with all my worldly goods I thee endow!" At the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey that evening, a late...
...twelvemonth ago inferior Federal Court judges were knocking the NRA out of the ring right & left. Farmers were in a blatantly bitter mood. The Administration's great hope for 1935 recovery was a building boom to be fostered by the Housing Administration. In California Upton Sinclair as Democratic candidate for Governor had become such a nuisance that the President had to repudiate him. In Manhattan a million-share day on the stock exchange was front-page news and Henry Ford's announcement that he would build 1,000,000 cars was a refreshing breath of optimism. In Washington...
...Francisco talk was all of Wagner's Ring cycle which opened the season there last week (TIME...
...nothing left but a dilapidated farm, a bank book showing 50,000 devaluated marks tied up in his native Germany. Into a WPAgency he trudged, gave his name as Karl Goering, shruggingly remarked that he is a cousin of peacocky No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring...
...imported singers are so sure of their Wagner that they needed little rehearsing. But the San Franciscans who sing the smaller roles have been drilled tirelessly all autumn. More difficult still has been the task of training an orchestra which has never before played the Ring. Five players had to be brought on from Manhattan, four to play the special Wagner tuben, one the drums. To start the spadework a month ago, Conductor Artur Bodanzky sent two of his assistants from the Metropolitan Opera. For the past fortnight he has been on the job in person, rehearsing as much...