Word: saying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best. Under his morose, buzzardy stare, Tristans and Götterdämmerungs became not only the best produced, but the most popular operas in the Metropolitan's repertory. Behind the throne of General Manager Edward Johnson, Bodanzky was a great power in the Met, had more to say about who should sing what, and how, than anyone else...
...raise money. Four times he refused bishoprics in the States. Never a great missionary church, the Episcopal Church kept Alaska on meagre rations. The Presbyterians and Roman Catholics kept larger staffs in the territory. But although Alaska's baptized Episcopalians number only 6,360, Bishop Rowe could say that his church has "a prestige among the people of Alaska which is not enjoyed by the other communions." He plans to return to Alaska in January, to be among the Indians whose faith he admires. They will creep to church on hands & knees, against bitter winds which would blow...
...life. Dr. Manning, now Bishop of New York, has kept his guns oiled, said recently: "A Christian cannot be neutral between right and wrong. . . . Right is more important than peace. . . . What our ultimate duty as a nation may be if the conflict is prolonged, no one can now say...
...calf, 50% of its sheep, all of its goat skins) a year, the industry has seen hide prices jump 10 to 30% since the advent of World War II. But shoe prices are only 12% above their Depression I low, are fully 30% under 1929. That, say U. S. shoemakers, is giving the U. S. pedestrian a lot of shoe for his money. To the shoe industry, that also means a lot of business for its prices: 1936 and 1937 sales topped the 400,000,000-pair mark (an all-time record, 60% over 1929), and 1939 is expected...
...Lydia, oh, Lydia, say have you met Lydia...