Word: sunken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into the forest. There, with new youth, new courage, he started a second bell, sang praises as he worked. But when the pastor found him, asked him what church the bell was for, he weirdly said "no church," sang on, swearing that before he would leave Rautendelein the sunken bell would ring again. The sunken bell did ring and by the hand of Magda who drowned herself to ring it. Too deep the crack was then for even Rautendelein to heal. He cursed her, left her, came back to her and died, while she went back to the old Nickelmann...
...especially for the premiere. Only in Heaven, he announced after the general rehearsal, could one hope for so perfect a production as the Metropolitan's. The Metropolitan's audience tried to return the compliment, called him again and again before the curtain. For critics The Sunken Bell was commendable, if unimportant, an opera to make one pleasant evening, if scarcely half a dozen...
...here with his German company to go touring* in Redemption, in which he has played at intervals for the past 15 years. Curiously enough, Moissi was not born back stage on a winter's night, while his mother was making a quick change in The Sunken Bell. His paternal progenitors, with their clanging names, were great men in Trieste; one of them, Moissi Golemi, was a general under the Albanian national hero Scanderbeg. His mother, extant at 86, is a descendant of one Carlo di Radis, a famed Italian physician. Moissi's father was a merchant in Trieste...
...also, one especially able assistant: Walter Catlett speaks of a "sunken garden for fallen women," and when comparing a watch with a sun dial, he speaks of "old Sol and Ingersol" with fetching apologia...
...drag net for evidence of the sunken continent will be spread for the most part around the Azores, because in addition to the myths of the past, a recent U. S. Navy surveying expedition brought back bathymetric maps of a submerged plateau with terraced shores in this vicinity...