Word: happenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hurried to Greensboro where he died from loss of blood a few minutes after reaching a hospital. Hunter Brooks said that on the way to the hospital Hunter Law had begged Hunter Williams not to reproach himself for the tragedy, described it as "just one of those things that happen...
...night last week 1,500 Washingtonians settled themselves in Constitution Hall to hear a performance of Lakmé by the National Opera Association. When nothing seemed to happen after half an hour, the audience began to clap, stomp, demand explanations. Another fruitless hour passed. Then a plump little woman with disheveled white hair appeared before the curtain, waved a piece of paper, cried: "This is the most terrible thing that has ever happened in the history of music. I have a check to pay the musicians but they refuse to take it. Won't some one please endorse...
...none will cast a stone at him for that. But will a gentleman of your reverend profession allow me an example from the fields of gallantry? When two gentlemen compete for the favor of a lady, and the one succeeds and the other is rejected, and (as will sometimes happen) matter damaging to the successful rival's credit reaches the ear of the defeated, it is held by plain men of no pretensions that his mouth is, in the circumstance, almost necessarily closed. Your church and Damien's were in Hawaii upon a rivalry to do well...
Names have a special significance which seems either to mold the persons who bear them into the proper types or, perhaps, names just happen to fit the individuals to whom they belong. "Homer" seems to have that certain something which can be attached to no other and the fact that Edward Everett Horton has been able to grasp the distinction of the name "Homer Bits", makes his current picture an unbounded success...
...tutor, of course, or a tutor who did not understand his duties, might use his power as a threat, make himself a "task-master", and make the system for his tutees "a sort of pedagogical nursery." But there is no reason to suppose this would happen, any more than it happens now with the not insignificant power of tutors in borderline cases...