Word: coffersful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Bayreuth Wagner Festival (TIME, Aug. 4) continued. Every opera which will be presented has had by now at least one hearing. The complete Ring cycle was presented: Rheingold, Siegfried, Walküre, Götterdammerung, also Parsifal and Meistersinger. All has been carried out in strictest accordance with the...
An "unfavorable balance" means that the value of imports is greater than the value of exports. It ends in general in the paying out of money or gold. But this kind of a balance can be favorable, too, in a sense. If a nation is a great creditor-as is...
The City Fathers of Berlin are pleased. They are taxing dancing. In January there flowed into the city coffers $400,000; in February, $475,000. "Berlin is dancing itself out of its financial troubles."
Senator A. Owsley Stanley of Kentucky, another Democrat rose to praise the deadlock: "What Democrat, what patriot, what lover of his country could ask Congress to put this thing [the Republican majority] in motion again? Do we want another railroad bill? Do we want to put more burdens on the...
¶Said Dr. Sun "to my friends the American people:" "The revenue belongs to us by every right known to God and man. We must stop the money from going to Peking to buy arms to kill us, just as your forefathers stopped taxation going to the English coffers by...