Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In 1915, while German U-boats were ranging the Atlantic traffic lanes, a gaunt and hawklike Austrian arrived in Manhattan. He spoke no English, but his first act was to make a translated statement to the press: "I hope to please the American public and if I do I shall...
A gloomy autocrat, Bodanzky drove every performance he conducted with a tight rein, lashed world-famed tenors and sopranos at rehearsals with a hot tongue ("Who told you you could sing?"). When he was feeling impatient he would sometimes drag a performance over the jumps as if he were rushing...
At week's end Dr. Greene had encouraging answers from 20 broadcasters, was already girding for another scrap-against double talk (idioglossia).* Says he: "If a comedian has to try to put his stuff over by making a fool of our good English, then let him not stay in...
President Keezer retaliated by barring the team from all college laboratories and libraries for five days (one day for each victory). President & faculty also began to talk darkly of redeeming Reed's scholastic reputation by paying football players not to come to Reed. In his annual report to the...
Episcopal Bishop William Lawrence of Massachusetts was convinced that war was "wickedness, useless and stupid." Against such teachings, Dr. William Thomas Manning wrote to the New York Times that "Our moral sense as a nation is dulled. . . . Our present lack of national spirit is due also in part to a...