Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Theatregoers will find the following selection worthy of first consideration...
...half of the Metropolitan Opera Company's current season, and last week had taken receipts of over $100,000. The music, hailed by critics as less than Puccini's best, is admittedly tuneful, the spectacle exotic and gorgeous, the singing and acting of Jeritza and Lauri-Volpi find continued applause from packed houses...
...Comstock of Minnesota, has just regained the national coffee-drinking championship downing 85 cupfulls in seven hours and a quarter. The pride of his state, he is not the first to find the alimentary canal a passage to fame. The ability to swallow the unusual has always commanded the admiration of mankind. Probably the interest in this kind of performance arises form the complete universality of its equipment. All of us dabble in the art to some extent, and even a man who has only choked on a fishbone can appreciate the greatness of one who has swallowed a sword...
...students themselves. A pledge of the sort required can do little good by itself. Those sincere enough to refuse such a promise will lose their party, but drinking will not be decreased. Those who accept it without compliance with its spirit will in all probability be able to find loopholes by whch they will be able to maintain their pledged word without serious detriment to their enjoyment. The only cases where a pledge to "obey law" will accomplish its purpose will be among those who are willing to cooperate in all particulars with the spirit of the faculty's policy...
...ladies and gentlemen, Vermont has as good mountains as any other state. So when the President of this country, Calvin Coolidge, cannot find a mountain in Vermont good enough to bear his name, I scruple at his right to continue as manager of the only silent spokesman, official or otherwise, ever heretofore allowed to parade the White House Grounds...