Word: filled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...backed up by dismissals. In Boston, one attorney was summarily removed; and it looks as if her lightning might next strike in New Jersey, where there is at present a furor over enforcement. The new Senator from Massachusetts, William M. Butler, has been looking for a man to fill the Willebrandt-made vacancy...
...nearly a century your State has been under our administration. Today it is handed over to you well organized and prosperous. Your education, your record as a soldier and the diligence with which you have studied to prepare yourself for the work of governing your State, fill me with confidence that you will think more of the duties and responsibilities of your office than of its privileges...
...different order is the grand manner of Mr. Curtis. He has ransacked the ends of the world to fill the Post with daily tidings from afar. He has fattened and sleekened every page, stinting nothing to give his creature an air of brisk, full-blooded opulence and suavity. Where the Times drones and expatiates with the pensiveness of a scholarly, grey bearded statistician; where the Herald-Tribune stands brightly but carefully pat like a promising young member of the Stock Exchange; where the World, like a self-made man with brains, ideals and a deep vein of cynicism, cloaks terse...
...London, the Royal Philharmonic Society gave its first concert of the .season. Wilhelm Furtwängler, famed German who will fill a guest engagement with the New York Philharmonic this year (TIME, Dec. 8), was the conductor. Old is the Royal Philharmonic Society. When it opened its season 100 years ago, Beethoven's Piano Concerto in C Minor was played for the first time in England...
...audi- torium "for the encouragement of chamber music," to be attached to the Library of Congress. She further offered to make an endowment to increase the music resources of the Library. Herbert Putnam, transmitting Mrs. Coolidge's offer to Congress for consideration, declared that, if accepted, it would fill "a long-felt need...