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OPINIONS. Conditions in Russia, veiled as they are by propaganda, and obscured by partisanship, may well be compared to the next world: one side has it that Soviet Russia is an earthly paradise; the other, that it is quite the reverse. Here are opinions pro & con...
Does he speak it as I was laboriously taught to pronunciation do, - supposedly the "con-sti-teeoo-tional" only or correct as you would indicate, without the fine shading upon the long...
...Chief Justice Taft-so far as ear detects-omits "the fine shading," pronounces it "con-sti-toooo-tional" as reported...
...Rieti concerto, Ferroud's "Foules" and Beethoven's Second Symphony. A great audience, eager to be pleased, found the Vivaldi pleasant; the Rieti clever, inconsequential; the Ferroud noisy, tiresome as the crowds he pictured; the compound undistinguished. Applause, highly in order at the season's first con certs, was given lavishly to Conductor Mengelberg in exchange for his stuffy little bows and to the superb orchestra which he com mands...
...word which, when used by Mr. Chief Justice Taft, acquires the timbre of archangelic trumpeting. "Con-sti-tooo-tional," says Mr. Chief Justice Taft...