Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before these charges the Abbé sat immobile, only exclaiming now and then: "That is a frightful lie!" He did not, however, explain away the testimony of his neighbors...
...quite a normal, small boy, however. He could play with other children; he would eat his meals. He had studied music for two years only. His mother was an actress (Claribel Fontaine), his father an actor (Herbert Farjeon) and his great-great-uncle was actor Joseph Jefferson. That might explain without undue "forcing" some of his immature thirst for Brahms, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky "and specially Mozart." Besides the "Hiawatha" setting he had written only an Indian war dance, a "Suite of Characteristics" and a "Rhapsody in Red." The latter, he said, was "after the idea of the 'Rhapsody in Blue...
Mere mention that a song called "Cinderella" occurs in the first act, will explain the plot sufficiently. "Wear Your Sunday Smile" and the title song "Judy", pleasant and innocuous, are the songs sold at the door. As for the cast, Patti Harrold, dainty and unstudied, makes a charming heroine; Robert Armstrong, obviously out of place in musical comedy, a not-so-good hero. George Meeker, Edward Allen, and Frank Beaston, as Tom, Dick, and Harry, furnish the bulk of the humor, which depends more on their own antics than the rather weak book. Mr. Beaston especially stands...
Professor Haring continued to explain that the new government asked for financial aid, which it obtained from the New York bankers. Faced with revolution, the conservative government in 1912 again asked for assistance, and a legation guard was stationed at Managua. The alternative was a recurrence of political and financial anarchy. The marines stayed from 1912 until 1924 and their presence helped maintain order, although it caused resentment in Central America and evoked the cry of "dollar imperialism." In 1919 Nicaragua was able to buy back her railway and in 1924 her bank which had been controlled...
...fame. Mr. Gregg, son of a Democratic Congressman from Palestine, Tex., came as a clerk to the Treasury Department seven years ago. He plunged so deeply into tax lore that people began to refer to him as "that Texas tax wizard." When Secretary Mellon needed a wiseman to explain his tax reduction plan to Congressional committees in 1924, he called for Mr. Gregg and said in effect: "Go, young man, to the Capitol and enlighten those grey-heads for me." After the committee hearings, Mr. Gregg sat beside and advised Senator Reed Smoot (himself ranked as the greatest financial authority...