Word: walked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newshawk asked bluntly whether it was a fact that Mr. Wallace had sided with Frank to make Peek walk the plank, now sided with Davis to make Frank walk the plank...
...TIME, Jan. 21). Of the living singers no longer singing there remains mountainous Luisa Tetrazzini who in Italy squabbles publicly over money with her 34-year-old husband. In France there is old Emma Calvé, proud with the assurance that her Carmen has never been surpassed. In a walk-up studio in Bronxville (N. Y.), great Olive Fremstad lives grimly surrounded by her operatic trophies. The still lovely Emma Eames divides her time between Paris and Manhattan, occasionally revisits her old home in Bath, Me. Alma Gluck stopped opera-singing in 1912. Concerts and phonograph record royalties made...
...singers. Her rich voice is always deeply moving. With Lieder her abundant temperament sometimes gets the best of her. Opera suits her better. In Tannhäuser her exuberant Elisabeth dominates the stage. In Die Meistersinger she becomes the youthful ingenuous heroine whom Wagner imagined. As Sieglinde in Die Walküre she has no living peer. Next month Manhattan's critics will have their first chance to pass on her Tosca...
...recruiting-poster technique which Warner Brothers perfected in Flirtation Walk has two main advantages. Enlisting the aid of the U. S. Government cuts production costs appreciably. A foreword expressing effusive thanks gives the picture a patina of spurious patriotism which helps sell it to the public. In Devil Dogs, first Cosmopolitan production released since the Hearst cinema producing organization was transferred from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to Warner, these advantages, combined with some of the most exciting stunt flying seen in the cinema since Hell's Angels, were correctly deemed sufficient to compensate for the lack of anything which might...
...neither ever mentioned the subject to the other. They lived in a cottage all their lives, never kept a servant. When she died (1930) he tried manfully to go on with his old-bachelor ways, but he was an old man himself by then. His morning run became a walk, then a snooze by the fire. Three years later, at the age of 75. Lexicographer Fowler quietly joined his lady...