Word: echoeing
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...Pertinax," prominent Parisian political writer in L'Echo de Paris, fulminated mightily against American bankers. He thought their attitude at the Premiers' Conference showed "the narrowness of their views and their ignorance and lack of intelligence in dealing with European affairs, together with their muddle-headedness...
They plan to establish a central ticket agency, an echo of the erstwhile Central Ticket Office once nearly adopted, at Madison Square Garden, where tickets will be sold at the old-fashioned or box office scale. Supervision of this bureau is to be in the hands of William A. Brady and L. Lawrence Weber, prima facie evidence that there will be a strong effort to stump the speculators. Mr. Brady has long been known as a foe of this gentry; Mr. Weber recently proposed a feasible scheme whereby they could be laid...
...founded constantly, and many larger ones such as the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Club of Chicago, are being added. Singaport has its single and now famous representative. These clubs, although many of them are inactive and many more meet only at times of Harvard-Yale football games, help give an echo to the "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard", as it is sung every year. They give a point to the songs and sermons, and sentimentality which come every class day week; and they turn quite paradoxically sentimentality into sense...
...slips on the rocks. The wealthy father of a young man tries to keep his son from marrying the daughter who made the faux pas, and has him shanghaied. But youth will be served, especially with a storm to help (in bringing a reconciliation. It is a slightly haunting echo of Kingsley's "Men must work and women must weep," and the cast is capable ? except when they let their emotions run away with their faces...
Printed in L'Echo de Paris: "Saturday, a lunatic wandered along the Boulevard de la Madeleine. She fired her revolver and voilà, three people went to the hospital...