Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duse received from Morris Gest $2,000 per performance for her tour under his management. When the Italian tragedienne discovered that the astute impresario was gleaning receipts substantially in excess of her own portion for the earlier performances, she made objection. It was pointed out to her that a contract was a contract...
Captain Clark, coach of the Crimson trio, is delighted with the progress that his charges have made and expects them to give a good account of themselves tonight. They have taken on a big contract in selecting the 101st Artillery outfit as their first opponents, however, for the soldiers are the most formidable aggregation in this vicinity...
...Superfluity. "Remember, we already have arbitration treaties with nearly every important country on earth, and by contract under these arbitration treaties questions of controversy are to be submitted to arbitration. The Hague tribunal is in active existence now and is functioning with wider jurisdiction than the League...
...observers it seems that Johnson's chances depend on a "break." What prospects are there of such a break? An issue in Congress may provide it?but that is unpredictable. The only other major possibility now apparent is a soft coal strike next spring. The soft coal miners' wage contract will expire. A strike is likely. On Jan. 22 a convention of the United Mine Workers at Indianapolis will formulate their demands. If there should be a prolonged strike, it might seriously damage the Administration. To force a settlement distasteful to the public or to the 160,000 miners...
Geraldine Farrar's manager had made a contract with the pastor of the Wesley Memorial Church, Atlanta, for the use of his church's auditorium for Miss Farrar's concert on Nov. 30. Shortly before the concert one Dr. W. H. Laprade, presiding officer of the Methodist Church of that district, removed the pastor and refused to allow Miss Farrar to sing in the church auditorium. He gave as his reason, Miss Farrar's sensational interpretation of the title role in Zaza* which she sang when the Metropolitan Opera Company visited Atlanta in 1920. Nothing could persuade Dr. Laprade...