Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...novel of these operas is Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio", a comedy with a romantic background interspersing speech with song. Two lovers and the Sultan are the Romantic personages, while the keeper of the harem, fat and drunken, and a sportive maid provide the humorous element. It has seldom been performed in this country. The first recorded performance was at Brooklyn in 1860, in Italian, under the title "Belmonte and Constanze". Two years later there was a performance in German at the German Opera House in New York.SELECTED TO SING ROLE OF LADY HARRIETT IN "MARTHA" ADELE VASA...
...purifying, chemicals to be used, and even location. It will help us in several ways. In the first place, we will be able to make many innovations, to adopt suggested changes that would otherwise be impossible. Secondly, we will be able sooner to arrange for the actual planning. One seldom realizes what a difficult task the building of a swimming pool is. There is quite complicated machinery involved and many State laws of health which must be followed...
Last week newspapers paid a debt to crime. It is one of their greatest news assets but seldom do editors have a chance to say nice things about men who have committed crimes...
...There is in the New York City Hall a quiet, efficient President of the Board of Alderman, Joseph V. McKee, 38, who patronizes a conservative tailor and does much that Mayor Walker leaves undone. He is at his desk before 10 a.m., whereas Mayor Walker seldom appears before noon, if at all. Mr. McKee likes law reports and biographies. *Mayor O'Keefe confessed that he had never seen anyone get so hilarious on ginger ale as did Mayor Walker...
...obscure and mysterious enterprises in which dogs, all over the world, engage, seldom coincide with the equally enigmatic but less obscure adventures to which men direct their attention. Yet, at each end of the earth, a bone is buried. And for this bone, with equal ardour, under a sky that is like a shallow bell of cold and darkly irridescent glass, across terraced and interminable lawns of snow, men and dogs scramble together. Last week, Richard E. Byrd, famed aviator, spoke of his proposed South Polar expedition. Said he: "I shall take three airplanes and 100 dogs...