Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York. Robert F. Wagner, Democrat, v. Senator James W. Wadsworth Jr., Republican, v. Franklin W. Cristman, Independent Republican Dry. Senator Wadsworth, the culmination of all that is prosperous and Wet in the G. O. P., is favored to win from the ablest man whom New York Democrats have nominated in the last quarter century (TIME, Oct. 11). Mr. Cristman will not do much damage outside of Herkimer County...
...convention then proceeded to back Robert F. Wagner, Democratic Senatorial candidate in New York, as "a man of the people," against Republican Senator James W. Wadsworth, who was said to have a "practically unbroken record of opposition to all forward-looking legislation...
...Herr Heink's* string. At the Metropolitan she was at home, but there were the children. . . . She went into musical comedy. They lifted their hands in horror at the Metropolitan but they took her back when she was ready to come because no one else could sing Wagner as she could. She left the Metropolitan again, went touring the country in concert, into towns much smaller than Stevens Point, into army camps, schools, hospitals, East, North, South, West. No entourage traveling with her, no maid even, no road manager. Just Schumann Heink, taking an upper when she could...
...Keenie Wagner, alias Harvey Logan, alias "Texas Slim," confessed killer of deputy-sheriff Mclntosh at McClain, Miss.; of two police officers at Kingsburg, Tenn., wagged garrulously of the $3,000 reward on his capture as Sheriff Lillie put him in a county cell. Asked why he surrendered, "Texas Slim" said: "The novelty.... I never gave up to a woman before...
...Cosima Wagner, widow of Wilhelm Richard Wagner, who first triumphed in Gemany just 50 years ago. The old woman sees onetime King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, onetime Field Marshal Ludendorff, but few others. Germany did not always pay homage to her husband. France had detested him also. He once rendered Tannhäuser at the Grand Opera in Paris. He had rehearsed 164 times. Mesdames, seigneurs, laced perfumed lords chitchatted, watched the composer's rotund drab figure squirm in his seat. Wagner's back itched. Princes? Metternich nodded, smiled, as from the orchestra swelled forth great chords, low symphony...