Word: tenore
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Garmented in the magnificent arrangement of silk and tortoise-shell she had bought to wear in her Manhattan debut as Madame Butterfly with the San Carlo Opera Company, Ganna Walska, soprano wife of Millionaire Harold F. McCormick, knelt in tears at a dress rehearsal while Tenor Franko Tafuro sang "Beautiful Creature...
...added Tenor Tafuro in a rasping undertone, "do you turn your head away from me? I must see the tears in your eyes...
Apparently, the cry of wolf has been raised too often, however. Europe is more intent upon carrying out the terms of the Locarno treaties than in mixing up in the latest Balkan row, and the American press pursues the even tenor of its ways. Nowadays murders, assassinations and ultimate flying back and forth among the hot tempered members of the Balkan family remind one more of a mock-heroic farce or a travesty on the art of war, than a serious disturbance...
...sing. This Nardella had been a silk-weaver in a New Jersey factory. He sang as he worked. He sang as he walked home. People praised the beauty of his voice and Caruso sent him to study with de Lucia of Naples. That day he sang by the great tenor's bedside the last song Caruso heard. Last week he returned to the U. S. He will sing this winter in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago...
...sympathy for M. Caillaux. The French temperament exploded into many lurid headlines and wild words, such as: "France, with a knife at her throat is being offered up to a God more detestable than the God of War!" But two questions were asked everywhere that summed up the tenor of thinking Frenchmen's worries: 1) How can France keep up her prestige in Europe for another five years, without knowing what her total obligations will eventually be? 2) Can M. Caillaux actually secure ratification by France of an agreement that would force her to pay out over...