Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sweden, Composer Atterberg is also a musical critic. There, reading the estimates of his symphony, he chose to laugh with Ernest Newman's review headed "Attaboy. " Critic Newman had called the $10,000 "a fair price for a fair symphony which is what Atterberg has delivered f. o. b. as per esteemed order of yesterday's date, and hoping for continuation of valued custom.";,Composer Atterberg took the same tack, let his laughter reverberate through the press: that all along he had meant it only as a joke; that he had deliberately plagiarized and that only one critic...
...William Williams Keen of Philadelphia, who is "profoundly grateful to my Heavenly Father for good "health and the ability to work even after having travelled so far in my 92nd year," chose a startling title for his 22nd book, which he published last week. The title: The Surgical Operations on President Cleveland in 1893 (Lippincott, $1.50). Little known it still is that President Cleveland ("Grover the Good") developed cancer of his left jaw while he was stoutly persuading Congress to demonetize silver.* Dr. Keen, Dr. John Frederick Erdmann and the late Dr. Joseph D. Bryant (Cleveland's medical attendant...
Prosperity-It rests on confidence in the Government. Change shakes confidence, if only temporarily. Why change? The people chose not to change because they felt prosperous...
...title Governor-General, there is the glamour, and also the distance of some far province like the Philippines. Since colonial days the title Governor has waned in glamour, but waxed in its direct power over the lives of U. S. citizens. This year, 35 States chose Governors-Maine last September and 34 States last week. In every State, where a real contest existed, citizens awaited for gubernatorial results with less emotion than for presidential, but with scarcely less concern. For politicians, gubernatorial results were almost as important as presidential because of the local patronage at stake...
...building, first, two airships larger than the Los Angeles or Graf Zeppelin, and later, simi- lar ones. Cleveland wanted the industry. Los Angeles, San Diego and 100 other cities wanted it. President Paul Weeks Litchfield of both the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. and the affiliated Goodyear Zeppelin Corp., chose Akron, Goodyear headquarters...