Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wagner, Overture to "The Flying Dutchman...
...accepted tradition of U. S. sport. Harold Grange recently, it is reported, accepted $1,000 to say a certain brand of cigarets was good, although he saved his self-respect by refusing $10,000 which was offered him if he would say he smoked that brand. Honus ("Hans") Wagner, bowlegged shortstop, ran for sheriff in a Pennsylvania county. William T. Tilden found that he could get stories into magazines, although even his best friends agreed that his literary proficiency was none too good. Last week on an inside sheet of the Tampa Morning Tribune, a famed baseball manager turned...
...Boston-Chicago Opera Association will probably set the evening of January 26 for the event. The opera then to be given is Wagner's Walkuere. Cyrena Van Gordon, Olga Forrai, Alexander Kipnis, Augusta Lenska, Forrest Lamont and Edouard Cotreuil will be the vocal artists of the evening. Giorgio Polacco, musical director of the organization, will conduct the orchestra...
...right and pouring out his music like beer carelessly dumped into a mug too small for it so that a turbulent foam froths over. And yet, by some strange madness in his playing he gave his technical vagaries the air of having been written for him by Wagner; he tumbled a sunset thunder-mountain into the fustian stalls of Carnegie Hall; he rocked the hearts of shriveled critics so that they swore no one who ever lived had an equal magic in his finger tips. He was Ignace Jan Paderewski...
...German critic popped up with a question?would there be no Wagner the opening week...