Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opened the "Faust in Modern Dress" as presented last week by the Grand Opera Society in London. No liberties had been taken with the plot that Gounod chose from the first part of Goethe s tragedy. Mephistopheles made Faust live on, enticed him with promises of pleasures, with visions of fair Marguerite, restored him to youth. There were the same choral festivities with students, soldiers, peasants and burghers, the same stout Valentine, who dies in the attempt to avenge his sister's honor. Marguerite spun her stint, disported herself with jewels and flowers, repulsed Faust, then yielded. The prison scene...
...death of her husband. At Milwaukee the Y. W. C. A. delegates were thinking of her for their next president, recalled her work on their national board, her beneficient work among Negroes. A tolerant Presbyterian herself, she had long advocated the freer membership requirements. So with little opposition they chose her president for the next two-year term...
...paper. With Premier Haldwin as their guide and sana means in corpore sano as their motto they are standing, bloody but unbowed before the rushing legions of adversity. So none need fear any revolution in Cambridge. Plus as change--as Talley-rand might comment--plus c'est la meme chose...
Three Freshman teams chose their leaders for the spring yesterday afternoon. Richard Henry O'Connell, of Cambridge, was picked to captain the first year track men, Morton Cole of Hingham to lead the 150-pound crew, and Lawrence Milton Shapiro of Brooklyn, N. Y., to pilot the first year lacrosse...
...choosing General Pershing for Commander of the A. E. F., President Wilson chose well; few, if any, dispute that. And few dispute that the President's refusal to send General Wood to France even in command of a division, was, from General Wood's point of view, a snub. The snub may have been justified by the exigencies of the situation; that is a matter of opinion...