Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Five hundred judges and members of the Chicago bar have volunteered to come down here as character witnesses," 'Legger Remus shrieked. "And just because the son of the Chief Justice in this wonderful United States makes that kind of an assertion-Man, if I had you in the corridor I would WRECK you physically...
...Come, workers, sing a rebel song, A song of love and hate; Of love unto the lowly And of hatred to the great, The great who trod our fathers down, Who steal our children's bread, Whose hand of greed is stretched to rob The living and the dead...
Last week Dean Hutcheson offered further encouragement: There will be a string orchestra composed of Juilliard students to be trained by Albert Stoessel, director of music at New York University and conductor of the New York Oratorio Society-an organization which may in time come to play as important a part in the musical life of the community as the orchestra of the Paris Conservatoire; there will be three concerts this winter with soloists chosen by Madame Marcella Sembrich from the best vocal students. Leopold Auer, famed violinist and teacher of such musicians as Jascha Heifetz, and Efrem Zimbalist, will...
Says he in his new book: "Summing up the entire matter, we should say that installment selling, like every new institution, is subject to the perils of novelty. It has engendered new devices and has created a new technique, but it has undoubtedly come to stay. Some abuses and perils which it were short-sighted to deny have crept in. What is needed is to apply to each particular case some of the results of the analysis which we have attempted to present. As the years roll by, experience will teach us to what classes of commodities and to what...
...each floor for which a button had been pressed, the car automatically stopped, the doors automatically opened. At a touch of the lever the doors closed themselves, the elevator continued its flight. At the 16th floor, dizzy with surprise & pleasure, the old gentleman got out. . . . When he wished to come down again, the first car traveling downward stopped inevitably at his imperious pressure of the downward signal. The old gentleman noted that the floor of the elevator always corresponded precisely with the floor of the hallways at which it paused...