Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mantilla should be about two yards square. It is a venerable test of quality that a good mantilla should be sheer enough to be pulled through a wedding ring...
...momentous answer of Il Duce, the editors were permitted to hint, was affirmative. Significance: it would appear that Italy, just now especially piqued by France at the London Naval Conference, has de- cided to strengthen and confirm the ring of "Balkan Allies" which // Duce has been forging with Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece and Rumania against the French entente with Jugoslavia and Czechoslovakia...
...most important festival beginning July 22, ending Aug. 19. Tannhauser will be given July 22, Aug. 1, 5, 9, 20 and Tristan und Isolde July 23, Aug. 6, 10, all to be conducted by Arturo Toscanini;* Parsifal July 25, Aug. 2, 7, 13, 21, under Karl Muck; the first Ring cycle July 25, 27, 29, 31 under Karl Elmendorff; the second Ring cycle Aug. 14, 15, 17, 19 under Siegfried Wagner...
...Ezio Pinza. Since no German operas are to be given on the road, German members of the company were left free to sail for Europe at the end of the home season. Proudest of those sailing this year should be Conductor Artur Bodanzky whose uncut performances of the Wagner Ring operas were the outstanding individual achievement of the season...
...York in the last two years, the Treasury Department last week sent a questionnaire. Promised immunity, each was asked whether he had given the customs inspectors at the pier a gratuity, whether any had been asked. Purpose of the quiz: to break up petty customs graft, to smash a ring of narcotic smugglers...