Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some months before, this Abd-el-Krim, leader of the Riffs and once a German agent, had conducted numerous pillaging expeditions in the Wergha Valley in French Morocco, which is the south side of the Spanish zone. The French countered by occupying the valley in force. The Spanish blockade drove the Riffs to depend more and more for supplies on their agents in French Morocco. This move was accompanied by inciting other Moroccan tribes to revolt against the French. France took action to protect the natives. Abd-el-Krim replied by declaring that the occupation by French troops...
...life was intrinsically worthless? Surely no one who has read Boswell will say that. Johnson was a great character, and the most profound literary force in England in his day. He was fortunate to have had Boswell for a biographer. But Boswell's position was that of a press agent. He called the public's attention to the show, and the show is quite capable to stand upon its own merits...
...mother of so much of Britain's virtue: mother of Viscount Haldane of Cloan, twice Lord Chancellor; mother of Miss Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, scholar and first woman Justice of the Peace in Scotland; mother of Professor J. S. Haldane of Oxford; mother of Sir William S. Haldane, Crown Agent for Scotland; grandmother of Professor J. B. S. Haldane of Cambridge, famed biochemist. These were the fortune she bequeathed her country...
...never sung at the Metropolitan, the cork came out of his bottle. Said he: "Because they will not pay my price.* I can sing well. I know it. I won't pay to be heard here. By that, I mean that I will not give an agent 40% of my earnings just for an engagement at the Metropolitan." Philadelphia and Boston, however, are scheduled to hear him. They will pay his price...
...Stage Manager this summer. A. Rogers Weed '25 is to be Property Manager, R. H. L. Skinner '22, who was with John Barrymore in "Hamlet", is again to be with the Players. Randal S. Burrell '24, another former President of the Harvard Dramatic Club, is to be Advance Agent...