Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March 23, 1918 the first shell from the German long range gun fell in Paris. By afternoon the French had reconstructed the shell from fragments, determined the bore and weight, of the shells and the line of fire. The sound ranging equipment on the front had learned the general location of the gun and had discovered that it took three minutes from the time of the suspected explosion to the arrival of the shell in Paris...
...Leviathan plowed westward to the U. S. last week, it bore Dwight Whitney Morrow away from the Naval conference at London where he had been a U. S. delegate back to Republican politics in New Jersey where he was a candidate for Senatorial nomination in the June primary. Confronting him were two questions: 1) When should he resign as U. S. Ambassador to Mexico and take the Senate seat to which he had been temporarily appointed? 2) How should he stand on Prohibition? If he went immediately into the Senate, he would have six weeks to give to his primary...
...inadequacy of the "First Part," but by the mediocre character of the "Olio" (vaudeville). Producer Kilpatrick's Olio contained a series of antediluvian skits which included a ventriloquist, a female impersonator and some more singing, performed before a splendid example of early American opera-house curtain which bore advertisements for a patent electric belt, a dry goods store, and Mike's saloon. By far the best act in the Olio was not in the oldtime minstrel tradition, but bore the stamp of the modern night club. It was provided by Messrs. Sidney Easton and Bert Howell, whose trick...
...concerts, marked his magnetic energy, his romantic appearance. They decided that he was the man to reorganize the Cincinnati Symphony. To Cincinnati he went in 1909, built up a first-rate orchestra (and a baseball team among the players). While there he married Pianist Olga Samaroff who bore him a daughter, Sonia Maria Noel. His work as conductor soon attracted the attention of Philadelphians, particularly of the late Andrew Wheeler, blue-blooded secretary of the Orchestra. Wheeler felt that Philadelphia also needed some one young, energetic, pliable...
...drafts, the same outmoded predilection for Kipling and Dickens, and the same sadistic joy in making a late comer to his class or reading room miserable. He cannot have changed. And in days when second-rate academicians clutter the pages of "Who's Who" with learned degrees, and still bore their students; when university statisticians reckon in card catalogues the efficiency records of the faculty members, it is good to recall the impression that "Copey" has left upon these decades of Harvard men. He taught few classes, and limited their membership; but how the man could teach! N. Y. Herald...