Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mobile, Ala., Mayor Walker did not leave his train. He had canceled an engagement to speak when he heard that politicians hostile to Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith were planning to put him in a private home instead of a theatre...
Lord Birkenhead has said of "Tay Pay" that if he had been willing to swerve from his quixotic Irish Nationalism "he could have occupied some of the highest offices of State." Instead he has remained "Tay Pay," a man who, as the friends and causes of his youth have died, has made innumerable new friends but kept the causes that he serves peculiar to himself...
...certain observance of good table manners is not an infringement of the freedom of eating; the practice of taking one's morning bath in the bathroom instead of in a glass tub before a mixed audience is not an infringement of the freedom of bathing; and my advice respecting the proposed lecture of Mrs. Russell no more affects the liberalism of the University of Wisconsin or its loyalty to free speech than the Hottentot alphabet-if there is one-affects the selling price of Wisconsin cheese...
Contemporaneous with General Pershing's utterances was the announcement of plans for another National Church in Washington, this one not to be a U. S. Westminster Abbey or even a cathedral. Instead, it will be the largest U. S. cruciform church; it will be called the National Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Charles Wood, D.D., president of its incorporators, revealed that a site had already been chosen, that the church would be 290 feet long and 150 feet wide, that its steeple or tower would rise 222 feet above the ground...
...there has been a crying need for smaller companies, such as this trained at home rather than studying in Europe. As there are no "stars" in the American Opera Company, an artist who is cast for a principal role one night may have a secondary part the following evening. Instead of a chorus, in the true sense, there is a large group of junior members, all of whom are preparing to sing individual roles. It is not unusual for a member of the organization who generally sings important roles to work with the ensemble at performances which do not demand...