Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Less atonal in its harmonies but in spirit akin to Composer Ernst Krenek's much- discussed Jonny Spielt Auf, the bathroom opera's subject matter is a farcical treatment of divorce. The soprano's opening song becomes a duet when a man, employed by her husband to provide divorce grounds, enters the room. The duet becomes a trio when another feminine guest of the hotel comes in to demand the use of the bath. Finally the noise grows so loud that all the employes stream in. The finale is exciting, uproarious...
...after the rise of King Cotton in 1830 than in the two centuries prior. In 1916, Northern industrial centres sent out a call for Negro labor. Two million Negroes responded. After a lynching whole areas would be depopulated overnight. In lynching's golden age (1890-1900), mob-murders were less expensive...
...Less than one out of three Negroes lynched is even charged with rape of, or advances to, white women. White women have not half the attraction for Negro men that Negro women have for white men?say Negro men. Many a Southern gentleman had, and has, children by his cook. Author White points out that Southern white women themselves frown on lynching as a means of protecting their virtue, which Negroes protected during the Civil War, when white husbands were away. Lynchers, usually sexual perverts, seldom wait for confirmation of alleged attacks. A rumor, a whisper, a bloodthirsty suggestion...
...flyers discovered why their tail had drooped at the take-off?the stowaway was there. They decided not to throw him overboard. To lighten the load they had dispensed with thermos bottles, victuals and other comforts. They had taken less than their full capacity of gas. Jean Assolant, married only three days to Pauline Parker, pretty Manhattan chorus girl, had refused to take her. But that hulking, selfish boy was with them. His unexpected weight prevented their reaching French soil...
...needs. But when gasoline supplanted oats as chief transportation fuel, oil men began to experiment on the problem of forcing still more gasoline out of the crude oil. It was found that gasoline is volatile because its molecules are small, that gas oil and fuel oil are less volatile because their molecules are larger. It was also discovered that a heat-and-pressure treatment would break down the large molecules of gas oil and fuel oil into small molecules of gasoline. From two gallons of gas oil and fuel oil so treated, approximately one gallon of gasoline could be produced...