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Word: temperamental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The brunt of the entertainment is borne by Miss Gahagan, of whom it may be said that not once does she allow the attention of the audience to wander. "Tonight Or Never" is a play which depends in a large measure on the personality of the prima donna for its...

Author: By B. Oc., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/10/1931 | See Source »

"City editors in temperament range all the way from the savage old curmudgeons of fiction to the fumbling, frightened softies one so often meets in real life. . . . But whatever they are, none is really as good as he should be. The job is one at which a man may work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: City Editor | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

Raisa sings some 80 roles; she began her career by studying coloratura as well as dramatic parts. Her favorites are Norma and Aida (she feels the "terrible oppression" they suffered), Rachel in Halévy's La Juive ("It is of my own land . . . my race, which in Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Blessed Event | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

Shields is Wood's best friend. Last year they were classmates at Roxbury School. Shields has often invited comparison with Tilden whom he resembles in build and technique rather than temperament. His game, less artful than Wood's, has some times seemed less determined; but his strokes, now that Tilden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wimbledon | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

"Vice president in charge of opera" is the title of the company's newest executive, oldtime Basso Herbert Witherspoon, 57, appointed personally last week by the company's potent President Samuel Insull. Clearly indicated was a trend away from "impresarioism" and temperament. In 1916 Harold Fowler McCormick, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Vice Presidents for Opera | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

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