Word: spoiled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was any small, sour group of delegates who disliked Moscow's biggest party, awful warning not to spoil it had been given them, and by Joseph Stalin. In a speech the chief parts of which did not come through the censorship but whose text was printed and reprinted in Soviet papers, the Dictator said of the men and women up for election to Russia's new Parliament: "I cannot say with assurance that their ranks are free ... of such men whom the Russian proverb describes as 'neither God's candle, nor Devil's broom...
...looks like a deliberate dribble in the picture, but it didn't look that way on the field. . . . I hate to spoil a good story, but they were wrong. I'm not that smart...
...typical blast against the Colonel's latest philanthropy, consisting of 46 cathedral chimes. "There are thieves, he trumpets, "mark you well, who are trying to exchange their loot for the moldy perfume of sanctity. They are hypocrites and gold-plated scoundrels of the first water, damme!" To spoil the chimes-presentation ceremony, the Captain distributes handbills announcing a counterceremony at which he will dedicate his own tomb to the death of the West. The philanthropist strikes back by demanding Trolley's arrest. From this beginning Author Fowler more than makes good a recent promise that his next novel...
Perhaps unfortunately for the world outlook of the readers of the Star, Editor Morgan's visit to the U. S. coincided in time and place with the 19th annual convention of the American Legion. Unfortunately for the Legion its goings-on in Manhattan promised to spoil the entertainment at many a future convention, for having tied up traffic at Times Square by lying down and shooting craps upon Broadway's car tracks, what real amusement can Legionnaires hope for from tying up the traffic of less frequented crossroads...
Arturo Toscanini was working his men to a frazzle fo/ the traditional opening performance, Fidelio, on July 24. The spunky old man refused again to have Nazi stations pick up his broadcasts, relented only when Germany threatened to spoil Die Meistersinger by withdrawing two of its most distinguished stars-Baritone Hermann Nissen (Hans Sachs),Tenor Henk Noort (Walther). Herbert Graf had plotted entirely new staging for Mozart's Magic Flute, and Toscanini planned to conduct it four times. Of the 27 performances scheduled Toscanini would direct twelve, two more than Conductor Bruno Walter. To Walter was allotted Mozart...