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...first place, and "by the end of the second act, people were leaving in scores ... It is clear that the public has tired of this opera and by no means without justification, in view of its immense stretches of empty and artificial music . . " Downes held out one crumb: the enterprising Met had given a poor opera "a fine performance...
...pinch of poverty. By 1920 magazines were competing for her poetry: "Oh, Lud! Have you noticed how Vanity Fair is featuring me of late? They just can't seem to go to print without me. And the New Republic is writing to me in longhand begging for a crumb of verse." From that time on, she could publish just about anything she wanted to write...
...John brings me a plate, Barnett brings me a tenderloin, John brings me asparagus, Barnett brings me carrots and beets. I have to eat alone and in silence in candlelit room. I ring. Barnett takes the plate and butter plate. John comes in with a napkin and silver crumb tray-there are no crumbs but John has to brush them off the table anyway. Barnett brings me a plate with a finger bowl and doily on it. I remove the finger bowl and doily and John puts a glass saucer and a little bowl on the plate. Barnett brings...
...steelworkers were not demanding "a larger share of the economic pie," but only what they considered a fair share. Where 47? of each $1 of steel sales went for wages five years ago, labor's share is now but 39?. Said Murray: "It has been whittled down crumb by crumb like the food at a third-rate boarding house...
Charlotte's Observer, the biggest (circ. 138,183) daily in the Carolinas, is a newspapering nugget of gold that seldom glitters. Its news pages are a typographical mishmash, its editorial voice a whisper. Yet because in its leisurely stride it picks up every crumb of news in its territory, the 82-year-old Observer is one of the biggest profitmakers of its size...