Word: spearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second act bewilderment turns to blazing rage. Under the spell of one of Wagner's convenient potions, Siegfried has tricked her, given her to another. A great Brünnhilde is spine-chilling when she brands the hero as a traitor, swears it by an oath on a spear and then helps plot his death. And at the end she must become a goddess again. Though high passages are long and grueling, a few rare interpreters have made them seem incidental to Brünnhilde's grief, her realization of tragedy as she majestically orders Siegfried...
...match for Wagner's mighty orchestra. Dramatically she was the "heroic female figure" that Wagner imagined. Those who heard her have never forgotten the horror in her voice when she turned on Siegfried, the fury she became when she swore the piercing oath on the spear...
Married. Salvador Franco Urias, attorney; and Jesus Navarro; as proxies for Ludwig Lewisohn, author (Up Stream, Mid-Channel') and Thelma Bowman Spear, singer; in Juarez, Mexico, where in absentia Novelist Lewisohn obtained a divorce from his first wife, Mrs. Mary Arnold Crocker Childs Lewisohn, Author "Bosworth Crocker." In Poland eleven years ago Novelist Lewisohn obtained a rabbinical divorce, the validity of which has since been questioned. He married Miss Spear, begat a child. The Mexican divorce and proxy marriage were an attempt to legalize his position. Mrs. Lewisohn I, who in 1924 obtained a separation providing $55 a week...
...Used to Spear Fishes...
Last week the following were news: C. Succeeding E. Burd Grubb, who lately moved over to the Big Board as a partner in Coggeshall & Hicks, Fred C Moffatt, senior member of Moffatt & Spear, was elected president of the New York Curb Exchange, No. 2 U. S. securities market. Son of a minor Erie R. R. official who died when his son was 15, President Moffatt got his start as a Postal Telegraph messenger boy in Scranton, Pa. He bought his Curb seat in 1923, two years after that boisterous outdoor market sought the dignity and protection of a roof...