Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...argued without the Government saying one word, except by briefs, in defense of the law's constitutionality. That the Court might decide the case of Lee Moor in some fashion without passing on the Act itself was possible, but Secretary Wallace admitted, "We are prepared for the worst." Meantime, bound for Atlanta were some of AAA's experts, going to attend a series of pep meetings for the purpose of convincing the South that cotton crops could still be restricted by the bounty of AAA even if the penalties of the Bankhead Act were declared illegal...
Last Saturday night the curtain at the Chicago Opera House fell on what was undoubtedly the worst season of opera that a resident Chicago company has ever presented. For a pageant finale there was Respighi's new La Fiamma, with massive choruses, lavish orchestration, an impassioned, queer-grained heroine who is burned at the stake for indulging in witchcraft. The heroine was Soprano Rosa Raisa, bluff in acting, uneven in voice. But Raisa, a relic of Samuel Insull's opera days, was an ace compared with the majority of the singers who have appeared in Chicago this season...
...Cooper, being the constant gadfly that she was, dared him to try. Cooper, we are told, never refused a challenge. The result was "Precaution." It's a pity that the author didn't take the title as a hint. The work has proved to be one of the worst novels in history...
Surely then enough trouble ahs been caused without the Crimson berating Judge Green for a sentence which seems, under the circumstances, to be just and dealt with in the best possible manner under the worst possible conditions. A. S. Blodget...
...worst U. S. opera ever produced at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House there appeared last winter a soprano so shapely, so vividly blonde that she seemed more like a transient from Hollywood than a potential singer of real grand opera. In the Pasha's Garden was such a flaccid, sterile piece, offered such feeble opportunities, that critics would only say that Helen Jepson was unusually pretty, her smallish voice agreeable (TIME. Feb. 4). Last week in Chicago Helen Jepson was put to a stiffer test as the heroine of Thais, the role long associated there with incomparable Mary...