Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Frida Leider decided to remain in Europe this winter, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company engaged a strapping Austrian soprano named Anny Konetzni to sing heroic Wagnerian roles. Anny Konetzni had been a swimming champion and a contralto, before she went up in the scale. For her debut performance last week she donned the feathers and breastplate of the Walkure Brünnhilde, proved herself a routine interpreter with a big pleasant voice which she had trouble controlling...
...first successful agreement to limit armaments on a world scale is the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, an historic monument to Charles Evans Hughes. Last week the Japanese Government, as all the world had long expected it to do, filed its denunciation of that pact. Two years hence, on Dec. 31, 1936, the Washington Naval Treaty and its supplementary London Naval Treaty go into limbo...
...surprise of many a guest, came Presidential Secretaries Louis McHenry Howe and Stephen T. Early, ahead of the diplomats home for the holidays: Ambassador Long from Rome, Ambassador Weddell from Buenos Aires, Ambassador Bullitt from Moscow, Minister Emmet from The Hague. Others with their relative places in the social scale: Episcopal Bishop Freeman of Washington, Federal Reserve Governor Eccles, Comptroller General McCarl, Reconstruction Finance Chairman Jesse Jones, Tennessee Valley Authoritarian Arthur Ernest Morgan, Federal Emergency Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins, National Industrial Recovery Board's Samuel Clay Williams, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Leo T. Crowley, National Labor Relations...
...radio crooner (Bing Crosby) to waste his first million dollars on fulfilling a childish ambition to marry a princess. When he meets the Princess (Kitty Carlisle) in Monte Carlo, it takes him no time at all to learn that she considers radio crooners at the bottom of the social scale. He buys the hotel in which she and her imprudent relatives are living on their dubious credit, impersonates a menial effectively enough to gain his ends...
...there have been comparatively few improvements in Shirley Temple's private scale of living in the past year, there have been several in her work. Bright Eyes, in which she is starred, indicates clearly what effect one year can have upon the progress of a peewee. When she made her first important appearance in Stand Up and Cheer last April, Shirley Temple's main attractions were curls, a dimple, the ability to sing and tap dance. Since then she has become a seasoned, skillful actress, capable of reacting properly to all the stimuli normally experienced by the heroines...