Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frequently voted with the court's "liberal wing"-Brandeis, Cardozo and Stone. New Dealers castigated him for rejecting NRA, but all the other justices rejected it too. He voted for many New Deal measures, including the Wagner Act. His attitude was that if a social revolution was being legislated, it should be legislated in an orderly, constitutional...
Ever since Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera put up its surprise closing notice, ideas on how to save the Met, and how to improve it, had popped up with the frequency of horn cues in a Wagner opera...
Melchior, who makes more money in such semi-things as Hollywood musicals than he does at the Met, volunteered to stage some of the operas he knows best-Wagner's Tristan tmd Isolde and part of the Ring Cycle ("ones with not too big a chorus")-with his fellow stars pitching in "on a cooperative basis." If the operas went over, he would try some others. And if he couldn't produce them in the Met, he would do it in a Broadway theater...
...Damn the Torpedoes." After that, there was only one more hurdle to adjournment. In the face of Bob Taft's disavowal of his own long-range housing program, New Hampshire's Republican Charles Tobey forced the full Taft-Ellender-Wagner Act to the Senate floor. Promptly, Wisconsin's ex-Marine Joe McCarthy offered a substitute bill, which would simply increase loan and mortgage guarantees to private builders...
...music and his personality had a sprightliness that led his admirers to call him "the Italian Mozart." Few musicians passed through Paris in the 1860s without paying their respects to the great Rossini. When Richard Wagner called, and tried to explain his newfangled ideas, Rossini told him grandly: "What you are saying is the funeral oration of melody...