Word: striding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's Metropolitan where she sang from 1903 to 1914 Fremstad was known as one of the greatest artists and one of the most difficult of all prima donnas. She had a proud, heroic type of beauty, a graceful swinging stride, beautifully molded arms which seemed to shape all the music she sang. Her voice was uneven but it was always deeply personal. And as a musician she was so sure that she was able to prompt any one who sang on the stage with her. Her impersonations seemed completely spontaneous, but they were all carefully considered before...
...company from selling transmission lines to or buying power from Tennessee Valley Authority. Lawyer Johnston uprose to argue what was expected to be a decisive test of TVA's constitutionality. Puffed by this weighty circumstance, he launched into an eloquent preamble, was just warming into his oratorical stride when Chief Justice Hughes interrupted to inquire: "Would you mind telling us what this suit is, who brought...
...Clough, the Leverett head waitress, has for some years been a regular diner at Liggett's. After work, Eliot House's chef regularly stops b HayesBickford's for his oyster stew. The Adams House kitchen is often thrown out of its stride while the cook goes out for dinner...
Hitting its stride in the second period, the Yale Jayvee booters ploughed through an outclassed Crimson team, 6-0, on the New Athletic Field Saturday morning...
With the tape a bare hundred yards away, however, Playfair surged by Woodland in a magnificent sprint. Increasing the gap with every stride, Harvard's captain broke the tape twenty-five yards ahead of his opponent, furnishing an almost precise duplicate of his victory over Bonthron in 1933, when Playfair overtook Princeton's ace runner some eighty yards from the tape, to lead the Mikkolamen to victory...