Word: valhalla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wotan has no choice but to order Brunnhilde to cut down Siegmund in the battle. The Valkyrie goes to Siegmund and orders him to follow her to Valhalla but he refuses since he knows Sieglinde cannot follow him. In the ensuing battle with Hunding, Siegmund is profected by Brunnhilde but the appearance of Wotan causes his death...
...worked up as result of making no attempt to hide his Nationalistic sentiment. "Ludy" was unafraid. Last week, for example, he told his judges that they themselves sat "before the judgment of History, which does not send men who fought for the Fatherland to a fortress, but to a Valhalla...
...gymnastics, the tight-lipped playfulness of a strange imagination, sonatas for the piccolo-much that is merely sterile grotesquery - occasionally individual beauty, unfashionably arrayed but genuine-half-a-dozen or a dozen poems, firm-fibred, original, distinguished, ensuring for Mr. Stevens a small but positive niche in the imaginary Valhalla of American poetry. A minor poet of uncompromising intelligence who may outlast many would-be majors...
Interior-decorated, magnificent, "like the shining face of a lady friend that has been lifted," the Hippodrome (Manhattan), re-opened as a Valhalla of Vaudeville. The seating capacity is now 6,100, making it the "largest vaudeville theatre in the world...