Word: wintered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...happy as a child. . . . Think of it! Singing almost 50 years before the public and still able to do my Erda, my Magdalena and maybe my Fricka next winter. You know I am 64 years old and I learned a long time ago not to do more than I am able. And I am able to sing those roles again. Isn't it wonderful...
...month ago, liquidation in the grain and security markets became pronounced, after an optimistic winter of steadily advancing prices. The question arose as to the real significance of the March setback in the speculative markets. Some held it to be the "peak" of a major business cycle. Others considered it merely a temporary readjustment of speculative dreams to hard realities, and thus a movement of secondary importance...
They told him of troubles, of Soviet inquiries and insults. Once, last winter, they brought him a Soviet magazine, showed him a cartoon -Bolshevik Zinoviev climbing up a ladder into the clouds with a sledgehammer ready to annihilate five trembling figures which were labeled: "Jesus Christ, God the Father, Jehovah, Allah, Satan." But each bore the face of Tikhon. The old priest smiled: "Donskoi was before the Romanovs, and after Zinoviev will be Donskoi...
Another factor in MacMillan's favor this trip will be the weather. He made his last try for Crocker Land at the beginning of an Arctic winter. With 24 hours of daylight to work in, he expects to accomplish in a few days what it used to take months...
...college believes that Social Service is anything but a silly name. Year after year the student is buoyed up by the hysteria of platform idealism to undertake something for which he has neither time nor interest. Year after year, the high-sounding phrases of early fall fade along towards winter, into the stern reality of a dirty, noisy neighborhood house. Boredom takes the place of quasi enthusiasm and the student struggles painfully and hopelessly for a while, only to let it all drop in the end. He knows then, as others do not know, that the whole shining structure...