Word: successor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...library of the University of Louvain, which had stood for four centuries, was destroyed during the first month of the war. For several years the construction of its successor has been in progress, and now the new building is almost ready for occupancy. Beautiful the new structure is, and larger and more convenient than the old, but it is a mockery, a hollow shell that has lost the priceless treasure that once made Louvain the pride of a nation. The manuscripts and volumes, all too scanty, that remained as the inheritance of the present world from the mighty Charles...
...stated business of the meeting will be the report of the Secretary and Treasurer, the report of the Auditor, and the election of a Trustee for five years as successor to Professor Walter B Cannon '96, whose term expires at this meeting...
...Austria is explained by the martial weakness of that country," continued Professor Langer, "while he does not employ it with Savoy and Nice, the real power of the opposition. By this catering to the public taste, and by such means as his bringing out a bust of himself as successor of the old Romans, he shows his understanding of Italian hearts and their love of the spectacular. Thus he makes himself a hero in their eyes. I don't believe that he personally believes very seriously his superficial policy of reconstructing the old Roman Empire...
When he was asked whether he thought Mussolini's successor would be able to maintain the power his predecessor had amassed, Professor Langer said it was very doubtful. "But it is usually the outside power which forces the issue, and not the internal. Consider France thus as the external force in the case of Alsace-Lorraine...
...them all. There is Maria Jeritza who gave last week her most gracious performance of the season as Elizabeth (Tannhäuser), whose Elsa (Lohengrin) and Sieglinde (Walküre) are compelling flesh-and-blood women worthy of the music given them to sing. There is Karin Branzell, worthy successor to Schumann-Heink as Erda (Rheingold and Siegfried), Fricka (Walküre), Waltraute (Götterdämmerung), Brangaene ( Tristan), Baritone Friedrich Schorr vocally unequalled as Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Sachs (Meistersinger), Gunther (Götterdämmerung); Basso Michael Bohnen, big, commanding as King Marke (Tristan), as Hagen...