Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...procession. Gradually the presentation has become rare until now, when the Rose to Elizabeth is only the second given in the last three pontificates. Only once has the Rose come to an American rulerLeo X sent it to Duke Frederick of Saxony, supplicating him, in vain, not to sustain Devil-seeing Martin Luther in his rebellion against the Roman Church, the rebellion Luther had started when in 1517 he nailed his famed list of denunciations on Wittenberg's church door...
...plans how to borrow shares of his gold and glory. By the Way is a London success of many months and employs two principal British entertainers, Jack Hulbert and Cecily Courtneidge. It is terribly, terribly English, and for the first half very good fun. The second act fails to sustain the brisk supply of sketch and song. There is the usual British reticence in the matter of glowing scenery and costumes encrusted with emeralds. The piece has personality rather than pretense. It has also a complete English chorus, which oddly enough is highly decorative...
...Truly a melodramatic story, long drawn out by Tolstoy in psychological analysis and pragmatical moralizing, but in this opera retold with truly theatrical effectiveness in only four episodes. Therein, to music that was "strong, eloquently melodious, entirely southern despite the artful use of Slavic folk themes to create and sustain Russian atmosphere," Miss Garden found as good a part as she has had for years. On the stage most of the time, she ranged from a joyous, playful girl to a hysterical, soul-tortured woman of the sewers. The Chicago Civic Opera Company plans three more performances of the piece...
...notes of observations he had made on his blood-reactions during the week he had spent in that glass case. His blueness was caused by the fact that the case was almost entirely airless. A small motor pumped through a cranny only "the minimum amount of air necessary to sustain life." Stretching his length on an operating table, he had his arteries opened, his blood tested. He was glad to be blue, because this color change and the blood tests proved that he was right in his theory that there is not enough oxygen in the blood to compensate...
...That was the best piece that I ever saw from the standpoint of real copy. The Cadillac is good enough in quality, reputation and character to sustain...