Word: thankless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...role of Isolde--a part no less grueling than that of Brunhilde in the Ring which she is also to sing here in Boston. The role of Tristan is to be taken by the well known Wagnerian tenor, Lauritz Melchior. This part is without doubt one of the most thankless in all grand opera from the acting standpoint, for during the entire last act, Mr. Melchior is forced to toss feverishly on a couch in death agonies while at the same time singing a long and rather dull part. Few tenors have been able to bounce up and down...
...Hayashi who had whittled down the customary 13 Cabinet officers to eight, pocketing the portfolios of Foreign Affairs and Education for himself. Premier Hayashi, moreover, had given every vital Cabinet job to a general or admiral, except that President Toyotaro Yuki of the Industrial Bank of Japan received the thankless post of Finance Minister, must somehow find the billions which Japan's fighting services demand...
...private secretary, whom all political observers in State expected to win. No. 3, according report circulating last week in Kansas, was Walter A. Huxman, Democrat, who to every one's surprise beat out Will G. West for Governor. The tale told in Kansas: no prominent Democrat wanted the thankless job of running against Will West. Finally Secretary of War Harry Woodring and Commissioner of Internal Revenue Guy Helvering, Kansans both, appealed to Huxman, a second-string politician, to make the race. They promised the campaign would cost him nothing, that afterward he would be given a job in Washington...
...than any other student body. But we do believe that it is high time that somebody made the first move toward eradicating a situation "which seriously menaces the future of the sport as an intercollegiate activity". We are proud of the fact that Princeton is willing to bear the thankless burden of the pioneer. --The Princetonian
...right tackle hole is still a problem, with the solution hotly contested by a trio of Al Kevorkian, Mike Adlis and Ken Booth. To Hartman Schmidt has been allotted the thankless task of subbing for Captain Gaffney, a job which he has been ably performing...