Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tatt" (Richard Tattersall) may well have turned in his grave last week. When he founded in 1766 what has become "Tatter-sail's," the most famous horse race betting ring in England, no such pink, blue and green tickets had been thought of as were sold by "bookies" throughout Britain for the first time last week...
...college professors and leaders in the professions who show no interest ir the Church is an alarming sign of the inability of our clergy to grip the minds and stir the imaginations of many of our educated people. A rift between teachers of religion and foremost thinkers . . . constitutes a grave national peril...
...distributed his words to various newspapers; more telegraph wires than have been used for any news event* except the Tunney-Dempsey fight, crackled into action. The front page of the New York Mirror was covered with a picture of Mr. Mills kneeling in sad prayerful pose beside the open grave of his wife. The New York Times wrote about the trial as spaciously as if it were a polar exploration...
...Jewett, in his interpretation of Sergius, has realized the effects of the lines to their greatest extent. He bellows and boasts as a Major in the army of Bullgarial; and his poses, hitherto obnoxious, become enjoyable. I was almost induced to go the grave of John the Baptist and apologize for not understanding that he, too, was a braggart. Mr. Jewett forgot that he was the great Shakesperian actor, and became an understanding Shavion interpreter...
...second pair of concerts the New York Philharmonic gave the first U. S. performance of George Templeton Strong's* Vie d'Artiste, a symphonic poem for violin and orchestra. Josef Szigeti was the soloist, drew ripe measure of grave, cool beauty to paint the mood of a creator, peaceful as a flower at first, but bruised and beaten by a mocking Success back into a wiser contentment. Critics found it pleasant, a little sentimental. They commended Conductor Willem Mengelberg for introducing it, and for giving Bloch's Israel Symphony, that strong, honest portrayal of the suffering...