Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grave Gatti Rules the Proud and Profitable Metropolitan Manhattan Bulk. The close of the opera season in Manhattan brought the usual many long articles of sum mary and commentary from the critics, and might have inspired the philosopher with a few reflections. Perhaps the most striking feature to be noted in a review of the 1922-23 Metropolitan season is the large number of performances and of operas performed. In 23 weeks Mr. Gatti gave 169 performances of 40 different operas. When you con sider the amount of preparation and rehearsal that even a moderately spectacular opera needs, these...
...Indians, and freedom for India to express herself as India and not as a semi-Anglicized Asiatic dependency. These aims are not incompatible with the existence of India within the British Commonwealth of nations, and, indeed, that ill-defined expression "Dominion Status" defines the present aims of the great bulk of Nationalists...
Francois Crucy, leading reporter of Le Petit Parisien (Paris), who covered Clemenceau's trip, says his first impression of the American newspaper was one of bulk and weight. " You do not compose your paper, you fill it up," he tells his fellow journalists in Editor and Publisher. His critique, summarized...
...meaning of his statement is that the bulk of our immigration is now coming from the countries of northern and western Europe. It appears that nearly every nation will fill its quota of immigrants before June 30, or that out of a total of 358,000 immigrants allowed by law, approximately 200,000 will come from northern and western Europe. Of the 200,000, 177,000 have already arrived. These immigrants the commissioner regards as superior because they are racially similar to the original stock of the country, because they tend more than southern Europeans to become citizens, because their...
...European banker, whose millions are legion, and who has, it is reported, financed Emperors and Kings, wars and rebellions. The next largest shareholder is Gregory Vagliano, adventurer and gambler. On the night of March 12 of this year at the Sporting Club he-won 2,000,000 francs, the bulk of which was so great that it had to be carried to his hotel by Casino porters in ten waste paper baskets crammed to the limit of their capacity. Mme. Chinon, the deposed "Madame Pompadour" of Monaco, wielded unlimited power over the Casino. No employee was hired or dismissed without...