Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...style tenors have always been a scarce commodity, and for the past two decades they have been growing scarcer & scarcer. Opera impresarios count on the fingers of one hand (Gigli, Lauri-Volpi, Borgioli, Schipa . . .) the lusty high-voiced Latins still capable of raising even moderate-sized rafters on either side of the Atlantic. Since the death of Enrico Caruso (1921), tenor departments of U. S. opera-houses have shown a steady decline. Today their audiences count it a privilege to hear their "Ridi Pagliaccios" and "La donna e mobiles" sung by anything bigger than a microphone voice...
When he was derricked over the side of the Coast Guard cutter Antietam last week, his lines fouled at 200 ft. and he was brought back. Next time he got all the way down without difficulty. "Holy smoke," he yelled into his telephone, "I'm on the bottom." It was so dark that he could not see six inches. When he was hoisted back on board, the only thing that bothered him was cold feet...
...Chamber of Commerce seemed determined to cooperate with the President if it killed them. Not until Recession had softened his mood, however, was Franklin D. Roosevelt ready to listen. The situation, both Business and the President must know, is now too critical for malice on either side. If the President is as willing to play ball with Business as he reports himself to be, Business now has the ball with three years to go on the President's term...
...family (who said her lover was "the Emperor of Germany") she set up in gaudy splendor in Spain, ran open house for them in her villas all over Europe. She continued to support her first husband, making no bones about it; nor about her occasional affairs on the side. For his part, Lionel made no secret of Pepita. Ample tribute to his diplomatic finesse is that he "managed to keep Pepita as his mistress and Queen Victoria as his employer concurrently for nearly twenty years." When Pepita died in childbirth at 40 she left five children. Queen Victoria...
...very close contest, the Crimson debaters vanquished the Norfolk Prison team 416 396 last night at the Colony; taking the negative side of the question; "Resolved: That N. L. R. B. Should be Empowered to Enforce Arbitration of all Industrial Disputes...