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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would have with free love, books, Art (meaning painting, sculpture, etc.), and eating vegetables. A pious man-in-the-street usually suspects Socialism of connoting also Atheism. Shy men-in-the-street think it involves going around in public without any trousers on. Lazy men-in-the-street have heard that Karl Marx listed Work as a prime ingredient of the perfect state...
...imagination might not be blurred, his initiative eventually retarded" he left the Metropolitan, took over the San Francisco Orchestra for $10,000 a year. There followed months of strife. Friends of the Hadley régime refused to accept him, called him "pro-German," made others suspect. He saw, heard, spoke no evil, swung his great bulk onto the platform, turned his back, hung his cane on the rail before him and made big music till the Cort Theatre was too small and his neighbors forgave him. Now at 55 he has the energy...
...smile, too, because I knew perfectly well, and the Queen knew that I knew, that the Queen had never heard of Menomonie...
...Maler Ludwig Koch of Austria, had been invited by the U. S. Polo Association, members of which had heard him spoken of abroad as "the finest painter of horses in the world," to come to the U. S. and make pictures of the International Polo matches. The Association urged 500 notables to visit the studio of Artist Koch at No. 127 Fulton Ave., Hempstead, L. I. Of the 500, one came to the studio. It became obvious to Artist Koch that in the U. S., unlike Europe where his works hang in museums, where artists speak of him almost with...
...polls to nominate two men to run for mayor. No parties took part. No issues were raised. And the man Detroit chose by a margin of 30,000 votes as leading nominee had made no campaign, posted no posters, mailed no cards, spoken no speeches. When this leading nominee heard the returns he said: "The vote of the people is a tribute for which I am deeply grateful. ... I believe that the people of Detroit know there is not an intolerant bone in my body...