Word: gether
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...operas are as good, if not better, than Cavalleria, Rusticana. II Piccolo Marat, for instance, which has been given in Rome and Buenos Aires though never in Manhattan, is a far neater piece of construction; four interweaving orchestral tones, built on four connected themes, knit the score to- gether; the scene is Nantes during the Terror, the villain, one Orso, a guillotining cockaded butcher, the heroine is his daughter, the hero, a nobleman so pure that he is called "The Little Marat." What more could one ask? And yet Pietro Mascagni, now walking a ship's deck...
Significance. At Babel, once a tower rose, heavenbound. But its build ers disputed, talked strange tongues, went unto the ends of the earth, con founded for blasphemy. Having accumulated humility and wisdom, and translated their tongues each into the others', the races are now come to gether again in new towers. They aspire not to Heaven, but to Knowledge...
...couching this last phrase, Dr. Wilson was probably grasping in his mind for Benjamin Franklin's famous dictum: "We must all hang to- gether, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." That phrase may not have come quickly to his mind, with the result that he substituted a phrase acquired in his duties as a censor of public morals...
...will put together the "Nickel Plate System" as one of this country's greatest railroad mergers. The system will include Nickel Plate, Erie, Clover Leaf, Pere Marquette and Chesapeake & Ohio, and the coming consolidation will necessitate a complex exchange of securities, details of which are probably not alto- gether settled in even the Van Sweringens' minds. Probably the most definite notion of the Greater Nickel Plate System that is to be, at present exists out in the Atlantic Ocean, under the square-topped derby hat of an elderly banker. A great many "financial leaders" had a hand...
...trip down is a get-to-gether party and by the time St. Anthony is reached, the Princeton, Yale and Harvard men have forgotten their college rivalry, all have become one unit and assumed the name of "Wops." Their work is mostly out-door labor. A new road to be built, vessels to be unloaded, launches and boats to be taken to other ports, patients to be carried from the boats to the hospital--such is the work of the "Wops...