Word: seraglios
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...Busch. Instead there would be Czech conductor Felix Prohaska; Rosl Schwaiger, s promising and pretty young blond Salzburg soprano; and Pfc. Gilbert Winkler, a 20-year-old calvary rifleman from New Jersey with piano talent. The only opera on this year's program is Mozart's II Seraglio; it is the only one that the Salzburgers could fit out fit a complete set of scenery...
...Seraglio in the Harbor. Contemptuous of the Consul's two-bit nation, Tripoli's Pasha cared little whether the U.S. fulfilled his increasing demands or not. Yankee merchantmen made good prizes, filling his coffers and slave pens as full as tribute would. Eventually, in a petulant burst of impatience, he declared war by chopping down the flagpole at the consulate...
...Russian-occupied zone of northern Iran is about as segregated as a seraglio. Last week the London Daily Mail's Correspondent Alexander Clifford asked why and gave some reasons for asking the question. Wrote Clifford from Iran...
...making her absurd part plausible. So does Miles Mander, as the neurasthenic doctor. There are moments of high farce when the air-warden butler gets mixed up with Spring Byington (in her bedroom) during a blackout, and when the Widow Bainter wanders in on a kind of middle-aged seraglio scene with first-aiders all wound up in one another's bandages. Otherwise, high seriousness is the note, of which the most vibrant tone is Mrs. Hadley's remark after reading President Roosevelt's letter about her son's valor. "Oh, to think," quavers Mrs. Hadley...
...Japan's military power stared from its newly won profile. It ogled bejeweled India. It peeped up the rippling skirts of the Indian Ocean. It winked at little Madagascar, over by Africa's side. It was a gleaming eye, because now the key to the seraglio was in Japan's hot hand...