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...doubt Julius H. Barnes, President of the National Chamber, "started the ball rolling" in his address. He struck a responsive chord at once in urging coöperation with Europe...
...grey and venerable old director (Rella), garbed in ecclesiastical red, standing before his surpliced singers, signaled with his arms, and promptly, without a single instrumental note to give the pitch, sounded a full vocal chord of perfectly true intonation. The choir sang with strong and vivid nuances. The basses were marvelous, sometimes like a deep bell note; the tenors were rich and full; the treble voices, of boys and men, were of that clear, sexless beauty that is characteristic of male sopranos and altos. Sometimes in the piano passages the voices moved with the exquisite nuances of violins; then sounded...
...called for his pick, and he called for his shovel, and he called for his gougers three." So, apparently, runs the ancient anthem of the coal states as unearthed by the Coal Commission. The song should strike a responsive chord within the undergraduate shivering by his sputtering lump of coal as well as within struggling householders and large manufacturers. But contrary to expectation the Commission puts the blame for high prices upon the wholesalers rather than upon the retailers. That the retailers are blameless should, however, be evident enough anyhow, for with the large number of retailers, each must deal...
...mistakes both before and during the war. He apologized personally for the sinking of the Lusitania, the invasion of Belgium and other acts of his fatherland. He said he was not representing the government, and would account for what he said only to himself. But it strikes a responsive chord in many hearts in America, who look for individual breadth of mind to save the world. The German prelate joins himself in sentiment with the English nurse Cavell, who said before her execution tion : " Patriotism is not enough...
...first place, an introductory chord played by the band is not enough to give most of us the note on which a song begins. In my opinion a few measures of introduction would at least start us in the same...