Word: hards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Agent Gilbert's report even hinted, last week, that Germany is desperately hard pressed to pay, the Reich might have hoped for important concessions and scaling down of payments by the Committee of Experts...
Here, however, is perhaps one reason why performances of Rosenkavalier are rare in the U. S. It is hard to find among the eccentric ranks of the sopranos any who are capable of filling, but not bursting, the trousers of the count, of being funny and at the same time handsome. There is one such at the Metropolitan, Jeritza; but she, always uncomfortable in trousers, does not like the role. Who, then, last week, was to sing Rosenkavalier, already once postponed, when Soprano Greta Stueckgold, who had been selected for the part last week, fell sick...
...sewed in the pocket of his second-best waistcoat, Adolph Zukor had been busy all the time. First, for $2 a week, he helped an upholsterer, but he weighed less than 100 pounds then, and pushing down sofa and chair springs while he wove fabric round them was too hard for him. Feeling his strength passing, he got a new job in a furrier's shop, and after working for several years started a little business of his own in Chicago. At the World's Fair of 1893 he paid 5¢ to see an elephant switch its tail...
...Neighboring cities might benefit, places like Port Newark, N. J., and Norfolk, Va. All four railroad systems would carry grain and manufactured articles eastward. The Pennsylvania, C. & O. and B. & O. would go through soft coal country (western Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia), the New York Central and Pennsylvania through hard coal country (eastern Pennsylvania). Pennsylvania and B. & O. would serve the middle Atlantic states. New York Central would take care of New England over the Boston & Albany and New York, New Haven & Hartford, and would reach eastern Canada over the Rutland. The Pennsylvania might also branch up to Canada...
...University quintet defeated the Middlebury five 41 to 31 last night in a hard-fought contest at Hemenway Gymnasium...