Word: containers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those sacks that you see the natives carrying along the white, beautiful roads on Sunday morning contain, sometimes, cocks. . . . And, what about it? There is no doubt that you will find the same flask of bitter liquor, the knife, volleys of cheers and curses, and many other things in many another American sport. Cockfighting is one of their sports and they will stick to it, same as Americans stick to theirs...
Some day, probably after Hearst has passed to the never-never land, his complete biography will be written. And it will contain many an amazing fact which Writer Winkler has, either deliberately or unknowingly, omitted...
...Should anything untoward happen to William Randolph Hearst, the staffs of the various Hearst papers would be running about like ants, for their morgues contain no biography of their owner. The proprietor has given orders that no biography of himself be prepared...
Round Russian peasant tummies now contain almost twice as much bread and liquor made from grain as in Tsarist days. So said, last week, both kindly Soviet President Michael Kalinin and ruthless Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin...
Such is the tragic tale which Pizzetti has adorned with perhaps the most splendid music of his career. The opera was undoubtedly too long and it seemed to contain a superfluity of dialogue, of inactive interludes that were only vaguely melodic. Lyrical passages were few. Fra Gherardo was original mainly for its orchestration and for the thunderous, muttering chorus which reached its climax in a mob scene at the end of the third act. These choruses were unlike anything that Milanese operagoers had ever seen before. There was something terrible and true in that imitation of the angry shouted songs...