Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Composer Leginska's music is sometimes turgidly slow, it is on the whole superior to the story she chose and to the Chicago City Opera's blundering production. Well-knit and melodious, the music often gives a real feeling of the sea as it beats against the chalk cliffs of the Cornwall coast. Leginska worked like a fury at rehearsals, got telling results from orchestramen. It was not her fault that the performance began a half hour late, that Morwenna, supposedly a middle-aged character, was mistaken for the youthful heroine or that Baritone John Charles Thomas...
...Hardly had Pig Floyd oinked a greeting to Governor Floyd when Governor Herring was informed that one Virgil Case, Des Moines vice crusader, had got out a warrant against him for breaking Iowa's gambling laws. Governor Olson promptly promised Governor Her ring immunity from extradition if he chose to remain in Minnesota, whereupon Governor Herring countered by pointing out that nobody but the Governor of Iowa could demand that he be extradited...
...Here is Gilbert's drainpipe." The President chose, however, to speak of one of Dutchess County's oldest stone houses built before the days of drain pipes. Said...
...Ohio State stadium was worth $20. The Ohio State band, often called best in the U. S., drilled patly on the field whence its exercises were inaudible to reporters in their glass-enclosed press box. Before the game, as has been its custom this season, Notre Dame chose a captain for the day to replace Joseph George Sullivan who was elected last autumn, died last spring...
...should be mentioned that the Committee has not forgotten the students of the College, but that it felt it would be better to put undergraduate participation more directly in the hands of the students themselves, and so chose an undergraduate organization, the Memorial Society, to handle this work. The Society has many proposals which will be definitely settled upon before the Christmas recess and presented to the students as a body. Many of these proposals are of a type that should make the Tercentenary of more interest to the undergraduates than it is at present, and with proper cooperation...