Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which did all present much credit. Prince von Starhemberg agreed with President Miklas that Austria was not yet ready for a "Heimwehr Cabinet." Their pledge to carry on the Dollfuss tradition bound them, they felt, to pick a new Chancellor from his Catholic party and just after midnight they chose Dr. Schuschnigg, a seasoned lawyer-politician and, like Prince von Starhemberg a monarchist...
Able to understand neither the language in which Shakespeare wrote the play nor that in which his Italian mummers were to perform it, Producer Reinhardt drilled his cast from a German script. For a stage, instead of the Piazza San Marco, where most Venetian festivals are held, he chose an obscure and humble piazza called Campo San Trovaso, bounded by a church, two 16th Century tenement houses and a small canal. Shylock's miserly squawkings came from a bridge still decorated by the arms of the Venetian Republic. Gratiano cruised about the canal in a medieval gondola. A garden...
...McClure, 27, quit Century Co. with the idea of buying original fiction from good authors, selling it to newspapers in different cities. He had no money for printed stationery. His young wife had often to choose between meat for dinner and postage stamps for the sales letters. She always chose stamps. That year and the next S. S. McClure sold stories by Kipling, Stevenson, Conan Doyle, etc., to a dozen papers. The newspaper syndicate business in the U. S. was started. Teller of the tale in last week's Editor &Publisher: S. S. McClure...
...King. The jury was taken to the scene of the smashup. Attorney-General Moore outlined the case: ''If we find there is an explanation of this accident we will all be very happy. But if you are forced to the conclusion that this happened because Kaye Don chose to race 60 m. p. h. on the public highway in failing light and caused this man's death, then it will be your unpleasant duty to find him guilty...
...Senator Thomas chose to ignore the fact that Senators and Representatives will not sit regularly again at the Capitol until after the November election when a new Congress will come into being...