Word: tiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metropolitan opened with a slightly fussier fuss than usual. Last week, however, the Met got in the groove-a few new voices and a new red carpet, but the same old scenery, same old gilded box holders, and opera's perennial bright angel, NBC, occupying Grand Tier Box 44 for the Saturday matinee, Boris Godunoff...
...various histrionic positions. A little man with flowing red hair was wandering about among them, muttering to himself and glaring at the Vag. Yet when he looked behind him, the Vag knew indubitably that he was at the bottom of a swimming pool, sans water, and above him were tier upon tier of weird looking people, perched on diving boards and the tiled edge of the pool, all tangled up with lights, wires, victrolas, and bells...
...within German boundaries, the rare and fearless publishers of anti-Nazi sheets are soon traced, not often heard from again. Cleverest ruse to defeat the omnipresent police has been to plug the rear end of a van with furniture, set up a print shop between that tier and the driver's seat, travel brazenly from, town to town turning out anti-Nazi propaganda. One such traveling paper, The Wanderer, was discovered last summer when it stuck in the mud, summoned another truck for succor...
...Church of St. Sulpice and the ceiling of the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre, are among the few French masterpieces in this medium. With the steady growth of his influence, other paintings by him have been advanced until they now occupy a third of "the line," or tier of honor, in the gallery of the Louvre given to 19th Century French artists. To superficial moderns these big canvases, full of exotic or heroic action, may seem uncongenial, but they and the 1,500-page Journal have been deeply esteemed and studied by almost every serious French artist from...
...innovation was tried and met with success in placing the double quartet for the echo in "Jagdlied" on the steps of the Chapel instead of on the Library tier...