Word: hearses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Excellent use is made of a capable chorus throughout the show. The occasion when it is most effective is the Christmas scene in the trenches. One hears the Italian soldiers sing "Stillige Nacht" across the battle-fields to their German opponents and the latter reply. Doubtful as the authenticity of...
One learns to talk by imitating the sound of speech. The deaf learn by imitating the sight of speech. Both deaf and blind, blue-eyed, brown-haired Helen Keller learned to talk by imitating what speech felt like, beneath her fingers. Aided by her devoted, lifelong teacher and guardian, Mrs...
Scholarships which make possible study at foreign universities have received a certain amount of criticism in the past. One often hears that the very numbers of Rhodes Scholars at Oxford is a handicap to the individuals--that they can never really belong to the true Oxford, and conversely that foreign...
One still hears a good deal, though gratifyingly less, as time goes on, about the hostility of Europe to the United States. It is even intimated from time to time that this alleged hostility affects trade between the two continents. If this were true, we would recognize this bad feeling...
The Fate of the Baron is the tale of an aristocratic gentleman whose life's errand is to become the lover of a prima donna and whose ecstacy at her final acceptance is quickly changed to gentlemanly chagrin when she leaves him after their first night. Denouement: the Baron...