Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soon as he began to speak, his hearers were impressed with the sincerity which he radiated. He confessed that he was frankly envious of the students at Harvard, ahead of whom lay all life's opportunities, for whom foundations are here being laid to help them build beautiful palaces, instead of mud huts...
...Agreed to the Senate's change in continuing the Federal Radio Commission to Dec. 31, 1929, instead of March...
...Palace in the ornate state coach. The Prince lives in York House, which is really one wing of the intricate collection of buildings that make up St. James's Palace. He had been expected to motor to Buckingham Palace and ride back in the state coach. Instead, he merely clapped on his head an enormous, extinguisher-like fur busby of the Welsh Guards, and walked round the corner, unescorted, from York House to St. James's proper...
...might as well have told one of the six Floradora girls that not one of them could sing like old Seňora Floradora. For the Flonzaleys are as unrelated as most teams which have a single name.* There was no Mr. Flonzaley who fathered them all. There was instead a Swiss banker, Edward J. deCoppet, who wanted chamber music in the U. S. He appointed Violinist Alfred Pochon to establish a string quartet, and he named it after his Swiss villa, Flonzaley, which translated means "brooklet...
...memories of a world that has passed" she reconstructs her London music room; then peoples it with musicians-Thibaud, Rubinstein, Ysaye-and with listeners- James, Sargent, Norman Douglas. Of each she makes a shrewd, if flattering, portrait. Of Henry James she threatens to write a book, contents herself instead with a few pages; ''With a labouring that began stirring in the soles of his feet and worked up with Gargantuan travail through his knees and weighty abdomen to his heaving breast and strangled column of a throat. . . he spoke." The day she met him she was wearing...