Word: ets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Executive Secretary of the Institute estimates the membership for this year as over 200 persons. This number is made up of College Presidents and professors, officers of the army and navy, lawyers, business men, leaders of, women's clubs, lecturers, publicists, et cetera...
...Fantasia, "L'Oracolo" Leoni 5. Prelude and Siciliana from "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagni 6. Turkish Patrol Michaelis 7. Sextet from "Lucia di Lammermoor" Donizetti 8. Wotan's Farewell and Fire Scene, "The Valkyrie" Wagner 9. "The Shamrock," Selection of Irish Airs Myddleton 10. Panamericana Herbert 11. Bacchanale from "Philemon et Baucis" Gounod
...roulette it seems certain that many hundreds of thousands of people will assemble in the famous salons to listen to the monotonous chant of the croupiers: "Messieurs, faites vos jeux." "Les jeux sont faits." "Rien ne va plus." "Zero!" Then will follow the usual clatter of "blancs, rouges et plaques" accompanied by the suppressed groans of the gamblers, except, of course, the tittering individual in the corner who had five francs on zero...
...statues and returned imitations. Six fake antique statues had been sold to the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Twenty per cent of the Gothic statuary in the Metropolitan was not bona fide. A prominent New York and Paris dealer made a practice of selling clever forgeries to " These dirty Americans," et cetera, et cetera...
...them, thus indulging his latest hobby. He acted for all the world like a schoolboy who has just started for his summer vacation, and affirmed that he was enjoying himself. He will not return to England until the end of June. Meanwhile, the author of Fortitude, The Cathedral, Jeremy, et cetera, et cetera, will en joy himself some more...