Word: among
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little worn at the edges," eh? It may interest TIME to know that in spite of supercilious critics there are thousands of music lovers and many big-league critics who rate Martinelli as the greatest of all tenors [TIME, July 3]. Caruso was never the "undisputed" supreme among the "chandelier-jigglers" either. Caruso's voice, though thrilling, certainly, was something like a trip hammer, and eventually busted his neck...
...perishable as its products. Packinghouse workers have a non-union tradition. Since a big strike was crushed in 1886 in Chicago, only two major labor disturbances - one in 1904, one in 1921-have troubled the stockyards. Each was finally throttled. Workers are low-paid. Their wages rank 13th among the 15 major industries. But nearly all larger packers have some sort of employe representation plan...
...first acts of revolt naturally took place among the lowest of the populace. ... The FRENCH GUARDS UNANIMOUSLY joined the Citizens, and a set of more noble, orderly, and determined men I never saw. . . . Placards were publicly stuck up by well known persons, setting a price on the HEADS of the QUEEN, the COMTE D'ARTOIS, the POLIGNACS, and others. The guard, horse and foot, of Paris (the horse are a fine body), all joined us in the evening.... All the houses put out lights to prevent surprize, and the Citizens not on duty slept as tranquilly...
...There is fairly reliable talk," cabled the Chicago Daily New's Edgar Ansel Mowrer at 7? a word, "of check stubs being found signed by a certain German. There is much talk of a certain French Deputy. Various members of the always peculiar 'French-German Committee,' among whose members could generally be found champions of giving Führer Adolf Hitler a free hand in Eastern Europe-naturally only by coincidence-have found sleep more difficult, it is said...
...year, plus $100 for each poem and story, a quarter interest in the Overland Monthly. The University of California offered him an additional sinecure of $300 a month. But he turned it all down, preferred his congenial brief fame in the East, and after that an Anglophile old age among the British aristocrats...