Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Passenger Manager of the Canadian Pacific Railways (which own the steamship company), at Montreal last week: "It is not unusual among important enterprises when action occurs that is considered inimical by any one interested, for the decks to be cleared. . . ." What was such inimical action or by whom done, he, prudent, did not state. But it is well known in Montreal, as in Liverpool, that Canadian Pacific operators were vexed at the recent announcement of the Cunard Line that the Cunarders Athenia, Antonia, Ansonia, and Letitia would be reconditioned to carry only tourist third class and third class passengers...
...Koch and his discovery, before modern science had tamed the scourge. Gradually the light dawns. The last fighter depicted is Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, fruitful and saved. The author disbelieves in the theory that tuberculosis produces genius, cites his cases to show what can be done despite the handicap, in the hope (presumably) of encouraging countless patients who have lost hope...
When they were done Mr. Coath, still eating, declared: "I cannot but remark on the beautiful sentiment of simplicity, honesty of purpose, and integrity demonstrated here tonight in the hearts of the men and women who testified. It is one of the most gratifying spectacles in the history of my school board experience of six years, and thank God for the real, human, honest people in the Chicago public schools...
...Cassatt, but Painter Cassatt specialized in women & children, in subjects bound to be peculiarly within a woman's scope: like Rosa Bonheur, whose specialty was domestic animals. There are no women's names to be ranked with Velasquez, Franz Hals, Romney, Holbein. True, in literature they have done more with such handmaidens as George Eliot, Jane Austin, Charlotte Brontë, to put against Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe. But in music the situation is back again on a par with painting. Women have given birth to no great music. There have been no Beethovens among them, no Bachs, no Wagners...
...slipped away between individual passages and spread into nothingness. The audience, however, was kind. Loudly it clapped the virtuosity of the 70 trim players, emphatically it approved the gesticulations of Conductor Leginska, gave the verdict common to enterprises of the gentler sex: That (for women) they had done very well...