Word: kind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moments he has dictated "a sort of a kind of an"* autobiography, lavish with anecdotes of "people," ranging from his fishmonger foster-father to William Jennings Bryan, his son's godfather. Written objectively, the effect is as though he were telling of somebody else. Written carelessly in helter-skelter, unkempt style, People might well have been tossed into a dictaphone between tea and dinner...
...title of his first song hit was "A Sort of a Kind...
Herman Devries, Chicago Evening American: "The choir is the greatest of its kind in America, perhaps in the world." Frederick Ramig, Cleve- land Times: "Dr. Christiansen has the greatest vocal ensemble this country has ever heard. The St. Olaf Lutheran Choir is the criterion for all choirs." Richard Spamer, St. Louis Globe-Democrat: "In all America there exists no musical organization devoted to choral song quite comparable to St. Olaf." New York World: "Some two score youths and maidens from Northfield, Minn., put on immortality for approxi- mately one hour and thirty minutes last night at the Metropolitan Opera House...
...same time parochial schools indicates how Catholic parents feel; they make sacrifices to maintain both. The public schools for those who want them; the parochial schools ditto. Plumber Sanders brazenly declares, "I am a member of the Catholic Church and in years gone by !" He's probably the kind of member that comes for his own funeral when he can't kick any longer. I have one parishioner (?) who has not darkened the door of our church for 40 years. A zealous Mason tried to capture him for the order. The Mason told me he'd failed...
...spit brown in people's faces, they could only groan, "How do the wicked flourish!" Shrewd as well as ruthless, Chang Tsung-chang at once ran up the five-barred flag which used to stand for the Chinese Republic ten years ago, but has stood for every kind of despotism since. One or two gullible correspondents, new at the Chinese game, soon described this shameless old flag-waver as the "Democratic Marshal...