Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sigued a year's contract with the St. James Stock Company of Boston, after several years in Boston amateur drama...
...proposals for legislation. He repeated that President Coolidge had promised to create such a commission; and he considered the moment opportune for such an enterprise, since the pressure of farm problems is temporarily relieved by better crop prices. He concluded: "Whoever promises more than this is entering into a contract which cannot be filled...
...days, together with the score of his new opera, II Piccolo Marat, and a company of Italian singers (TIME, July 28) is not coming, after all. Something very unfortunate has undoubtedly occurred. Said Mascagni, according to a Budapest despatch: "I had a contract to go to New York, but I am not going. New Yorkers don't know anything about Art. They have money, but no conception of artistic things. I know what I am saying; I am saying what is in my heart. I sent my program to New York. Suddenly I got a cablegram asking...
...newspaper interview the lovely Miss Wilson reported that she never wanted to see Tinney again, that she was through with Broadway, that she had accepted a motion picture contract out West "where men are men, and not black-face comedians...
...resident of Baltimore, Simon, who is 58 years old, has long been prominent in the development of undersea navigation. In the early 90's he competed for the contract to build the first Government submarine. A rival won the award, but in 1897 Mr. Lake launched the Argonaut, first submersible to operate successfully in the open sea. Speaking on the development of the submarine, he once said : "My first trip was in the Argonaut down Chesapeake Bay. Night was coming on and we de cided to come to the surface...