Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lives away from the world in the forest at Montfort-l'Amaury, concerning himself with the creation of music: for grown-ups his orchestral valse, his mocking Tziganes, his naughty I'Heure Espagnole; for children, his lovely Mother Goose suite and l'Enfant et les Sortileges?a happier balance than his contemporaries have found. In the U. S. for three months, he will conduct the New York, Boston, San Francisco and Cleveland orchestras, will appear also in Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Denver, St. Louis, Houston and Philadelphia...
...list of titles, dates, and speakers is as follows: January 20, "Louise", "The Jewels of the Madonna", and "La Gioconda", R. Y. Robison; January 23, "Alda", "A Witch of Salem", and "Romeo and Juliet", Professor Spalding; January 26, "Tannhauser", "Sappho", and Samson et Dalila", W. S. Smith; January 30, "Carmen", "Lohengrin", and "Tosca", Stuart Mason; February 2, "Martha", "Rigoletto", and "La Traviata", R. C. Robinson...
Hearst Documents. The special committee investigating the documents with which Publisher William Randolph Hearst tried to show a bribery plot between Mexico and U. S. Senators (TIME, Dec. 19 et seq.), approached the conclusion that Publisher Hearst was a knave or a dolt or both. Handwriting experts last week pronounced the documents, for which Publisher Hearst paid $20,000, to be inept forgeries. The evidence pointed toward the Hearst agent, Miguel Avila, as one of the forgers, though this was not proved. Publisher Hearst protested his own innocence, agreed he had been bamboozled but again insisted a bribery plot...
Only 44 of the 10,000 essays were thought worthy of the whole jury's attention. Not one was deemed worthy of even a second prize $1,000). Of the $57,000 prize money (contributed by Cyrus H. McCormick, Edward Bok, Henry Morgenthau, Bernard M. Baruch et al.), only $2,000 was awarded-for 14 third prizes ($100 each) and 30 honorable mentions...
...passing laws which foreign interests in Mexico found "retroactively confiscatory" of their titles to Mexican lands and oil. Equally bold to the point of rashness has been Señor Calles' enforcement of the anti-religious clauses of the Constitution (TIME, Feb. 22, 1926, et seq.). Indeed, for the past two years foreign investors and Roman Catholics in Mexico have almost continuously shrieked their wrongs...