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Even as the Speisehause tables trembled, while many a platte of ripe Bavarian sausage crashed to the floor, the Deputies of the Reichstag were at work upon an official condemnation of Mussolini, which they voted amid angry gutteral acclaim...
...Alles!" they chanted, and then joined in the old hymn "Grosser Gott, wir loben Dich." Lifting their hands they took an oath to German unity proposed by Herr Adenauer, Ober-Burgomaster of Cologne. From President von Hindenburg at Berlin came a message which the Herr Ober-Burgomaster read amid acclaim: "At midnight the hour of freedom strikes for the first zone of the Rhineland. . . . May the day of freedom soon dawn over the whole occupied territory!"* Where...
...college, led by an extremely able and devoted man, a member of the music department, who prefer to sing the best music and who demonstrate year by year their capacity to sing it well, who are invited to visit a foreign country and are received everywhere with acclaim, who have raised the standard of college music, whose repertoire edited by the leader has been published and sold all over the United States and even in England--why at this juncture, because the club insists on maintaining its standard, should any Harvard graduates anywhere cavil at it? Isn't the Glee...
...bays and quarters on his trail, runs him down. A prosecuting attorney who is out to wrest acclaim from society in compensation for a grotesque nose, causes "justice" to be done by "planting" some of the dead girl's hairs in a crevice of the camera. Clyde Griffiths goes to the death house, undergoes the torturing wait, passes through the little green door...
...sage bets: Inventor Marconi; Soldier-patriot-poet-playwright d'Annunzio; Composer Toscanini (director of La, Scala, Milan, "The Foremost Opera House of Europe"); Conductor Mascagni (composer of the score for Cavalleria Rusticana); Philosopher-satirist-playwright Pirandello (author of Six Characters in Search of an Author, a play hailed with acclaim on Broadway); Statesman Mussolini and as many Fascist statesmen as are able to get in under the limit of 60 Immortales...