Word: doesn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact, there isn't any part of human notivity, from babyhood to the finish, which Dr. Cone's discovery, so simple that any of us might just as well have made it, doesn't give us the chance to greatly improve. And so all of us countless millions who time after time tumble over the discovery without stumbling on it would like to know just how he happened to see if and pick it up. And, if anyone is offering odds, wouldn't you like to wager a little that it all sprang out of a cookie jar incident...
...America is planning to step in and referee the matter. A loan of a billion and a half dollars to help the struggling mark get on sol'd land is being contemplated. But France pooh-poohs our offers of assistance; she knows that Germany doesn't need it. Only a general German reversal of attitude will clear the skies. Premier Cuno, an honorable man apparently, has foresworn the policy of his predecessors. Said he a week ago: "There is no central force within economic circles strong enough to take the leadership out of the hands of the government under...
...phases of the art of singing, and his legate work, his use of the portamento, and his planissimo are unexcelled today. Although he could easily do so, he never commits the sin which the French call "chantant pour la galerie"; when the composer has written a low note Challiapin doesn't take a high one for the sake of a little more applause. In this he differs from most contemporary singers, especially tenors. His forte work is, of course, remarkable; and his climaxes, always beautifully executed, are memorable. But above all else, there is his rugged, virile, good-natured personality...
...with the cry of "Got a penny, Jack" on his lips. If he is of the better type he sells papers--if not, he takes what he wants when he can get it. Sometimes he goes to school--when he thinks that he will be caught if he doesn't--and sometimes he "plays hookey...
...failed. With no ghost and no Ophelia it is conceivable that a sandy lunatic might have been a great hit. Next the gentle Forbes-Robertson carried off the laurels with a kind of paradoxical, superplussed magnetism. Then, after Southern's admirable elocution and Walter Hampden's colloquialism -- which doesn't at all describe his acting--we come to Barrymore...