Word: wotan
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...famous pair, they will have proven themselves financiers of an exceptional order of morality. The practice is as common as an alley cat, and it's a poor bank indeed that cannot list at least a few government bonds on its balance sheet when call day comes around. WOTAN...
...which revitalized here industries. Whatever the next few months may reveal in the way of world trade revival, it can safely be predicted that it will not be Germany which will below here horn loudest abroad so long as the hope remains of shaving another dollar from her obligations. WOTAN...
...Lauritz Melchior who usually sings Siegmund. And he sang the taxing music every bit as well. Twelve years ago critics used to find fault with Althouse's bleating but now, at 44, his voice is perfectly controlled, rich with color. Thoroughly exciting was the scene where he pulls Wotan's sword out of the ash tree. He jumped up on the table, grasped the hilt firmly, steadied himself and gave a mighty jerk that was felt throughout the audience...
Walküre's second act might have ended disastrously if it had not been for the courage of Contralto Karin Branzell. She was Fricka, the angry goddess who has a long scene with the erring Wotan. Last week she had gallstones. Pain, not expert acting, made her sing most of her music with clenched fists. Finally she had to sit down on a stage rock but she finished her scene, majestically left the stage, fainted...
...Vagabond was recently reminded that Professors, as a group, are not of the human race. They move, like a James Branch Cabel Wotan, in a Valhalla of their own making. Not that they are much given to Walkuere-Quite the reverse. But they are absolute in their own spheres, they have the prerogative, a sort of vail as compensation for the numerous inconveniences which they suffer in their office, of doing much as they please. They may flick cigarettes from the mouths of undergraduates who violate the no-smoking rules, or bash in the felt crown of impolite sophomores, with...