Word: send
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people gathered once more to see Turandot lead in Calaf, Prince of the Tartars, and announce his name as Love. Opinions for the most part were in perfect accord. The production itself was lavish beyond compare, Maria Jeritza was wonderfully effective as Turandot, so glinty cold as to send the shivers down 4,000 spines as she shrilled her desire to avenge all men. Giacomo Lauri-Volpi was a loud, adequately heroic Calaf. But there were none of those sweet, curving melodies for either of them to sing, no tender suavities to linger over and fondle. Choruses here and there...
...therefore request that you do not use the word again as meaning a sailor, or if you believe in its use after reading the above that you do not send me any copy of your paper in which it is used. Feeling sure that you will see the justice of the foregoing, and wishing success to your paper without the use of any such offensive terms...
...York World has a number of Negro newspaper reporters on its staff; 'but. the managing editor of the World evidently decided he had best not send any of these to South Carolina to look into the Lowman mess. The presumption is that the reporter Oliver H. P. Garrett at least has a white skin...
...Claudel chiefly famed as a poet of passionate Roman Catholic inspiration, a genius whose poems and dramas are often inspired, and at least equally often violent, rhetorical, extravagant and wilfully obscure? How, asked practical-minded Germans, can the French have been so mad as to send as their Ambassador this poet, moody, mystical, perverse...
...pitiably small force, his brilliant "intuitive" maneuver of the 42nd Division from his left to his centre forced the enemy back and proved a paramount element in the French victory. Marshal Joseph Jacques Joffre, who had long realized the special capabilities of Ferdinand Foch, took this opportunity to send him as "Deputy Commander-in-Chief" to put himself in the closest touch with the British and Belgian commanders. His success in conciliating all with whom he had to deal led eventually to his appointment as Generalissimo and caused Mr. Lloyd George to say of him: "He could not have done...