Word: tempester
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...ancient beauty, rose in protest. "What will happen to our fine old town," they asked, "if you bring here a transient population half as large as that we now have?" This was not an isolated cry such as now and then rises in other towns. It was a tempest which echoed through the town's newspapers and received not little press support. Only to those who live in Santa Fe does the Outcome of the struggle between the old and new directly matter. But it matters to the country that there is at least one town where such...
...ordered from you recently its strings began suddenly to vibrate, drowning the sound of nearby church bells. Not without trembling I perceived that the shadow of Franz Liszt, who was once a guest here, had entered the instrument and was producing with long immaterial fingers a beautiful rhythmic tempest. "This is a place of mysteries and prodigies. Rejoice with me!" (Signed) Gabriele d' Annunzio Gardone, Lago di Garda...
Giuseppe Verdi, 1813-1901; Jeanne D'Arc, Overture (1845); II Trovatore Selection (1853); La Forza Del Destino, Overture (1862); Aida, Fantasia (1871); Othello, The Tempest (1887). Eugen Onegin, Fantasia Tchaikovsky Slegfried, Forest Murmurs Wagner Carmen, Toreador Song Bizet Goyescas, Intermezzo Granados Samson and Delilah, Bacchanale Saint-Saens
Having harkened well to this tempest about his ears, whooped up by editors who called him "Monsieur" Chamberlain, Sir Austen at length announced in the House of Commons that the Government position in this matter was as yet undetermined. An Honorable Member queried: "Is it not a fact that the extraordinary League session now assembling is being convoked to deal exclusively with the question of Germany's admission?" Testily Sir Austen snapped: "That is no fact...
...could hardly imagine a teapot small enough for this tempest. Mutual understanding seems to be circumscribed by a menu card. Be it admitted that great and holy causes are at stake on both sides and that "all is fair in love and war"; yet Mars would hardly stoop to wield a bill of fare...