Word: flops
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...young man in the checked Victorian suit who composed Cavalleria followed it up with many others. Practically every one of these was a comparative flop, Pietro Mascagni remains a one-opera man (which, after all, is better than a no-opera man, particularly if the one opera is a Cavalleria). It is now 22 years since Mascagni visited the U. S. He arrives here next month, together with the score of his new Piccolo Marat, which has been successful at La Scala in Milan and the San Carlo in Naples. There is a chance that a howling success here will...
...lets conscience be her guide once too often. Early in life she forgives her husband his daily embezzlement. She helps him make restitution and get an opportunity to steal again. Under her plastic indulgence he smashes a bank, smashes himself, drives a friend to suicide, becomes the complete flop. After his death his grown son peculates too; heredity extends to bond thefts...