Word: stampede
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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For all this Verdi wrote songful dramatic music which 80 years ago had great success. Last week it was stamped by most listeners as pleasant, old-fashioned stuff significant only because it gives a hundred hints of the later, greater Verdi. Distinguishing feature of the performance: the sumptuous singing of...
A Senate clerk stepped inside the House Chamber last week and announced in a loud voice: "A quorum of the Senate is assembled and the Senate is ready to proceed to business." The House membership was instantly convulsed with merriment. Sarcastic laughter rang to the glassed ceiling. Congressmen guffawed wildly...
As for the linemen there are only about two like Ticknor and Perry whose work in the Stadium has stamped them as distinctly better than their rivals. The others named, and a good many unnamed, performed well and the choice is really a toss up.
Quarter of an hour passed. The door of Marshal Pilsudski's anteroom banged. The Military Marshal stamped into the office of Civilian Marshal Daszynski.
Another of the extremely valuable copies in the collection is the first edition of the "Martyrs" of John Foxe, entitled as follows: "Actes and monuments of these latter and perillous dayes, touching matters of the Church, wherein are comprehended and described the great persocutions and terrible troubles, that have been...