Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early in the week the Irun staff officer's complacence seemed fully justified. Durango fell, mile after mile the Basques fell back with little artillery, no foreign technicians and practically no air force, fell back again & again toward a triple ring of concrete trenches, last stand in defense of their capital. Then two things happened, both...
...children disrupt traffic, delay the homeward course of tired workers, endanger human life and destroy hard-earned property. Such antics deserve no indulgence. They should have sharpest repression and punishment by the police and the courts, and sternest rebuke by collegiate authorities, with quick and permanent expulsion of proved ring-leaders among the offenders...
...signs of weakness. There is nothing in New York law or tradition that sanctions the practice of combining judge and jury in the single person of Mr. Moss. For someday the official inquisitor may not be so enlightened a man as Mr. Moss, and the voice of authority may ring out for the abridgement of some less undesirable pursuit than Mr. Minsky's. It would surely set a better precedent to take this matter before the properly constituted judicial body than to let it be settled by the mere fiat of the official inquisitor, quite apart from the fact that...
...season was to last ten weeks instead of the usual six, promised 21 operas in all. Though French and Italian operas predominate, two complete cycles of The Ring are to be sung and Wilhelm Furtwängler will conduct them both. Besides Beecham, conductors include such notables as Artur Rodzinski, John Barbirolli, Fritz Reiner. Francesco Sain. Eugene Goossens will conduct the world premiere of his Don Juan of Manara, an opera he wrote to the late Arnold Bennett's libretto. Lawrence Tibbett will have the title role, after making his European debut in Tosca...
Next day the Leftists alleged that they had uncovered "the largest spy ring found in the capital since the war started": 55 spys, including "a number of monks paid by Italian religious organizations" and twelve women ostensibly fighting for the Leftists, were charged with plotting to turn Madrid over to General Franco...