Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...audience refused to leave when the lights were extinguished after a recital by John McCormack, forcing him to sing two encores in semi-darkness." So runs a wireless despatch reporting the Irish tenor's appearance in Berlin. This sort of thing certainly gives the lie to the opinion still in vogue among cynical subway riders that McCormack's reputation results from crowding audiences of servant girls and from other manifestations of Gaelic loyalty. The tenor, far from being a showy player to gushy sentiment, is one of the most refined and scholarly of artists...
...father of the girl, cames up panting: " Let him be tried by law." They reach the bridgehead. The leader calls for a stouter rope. Delay. The Negro whines: " Mister, before God, I'm innocent. That other nigger told me he did it. I would not die with a lie in my throat." The stouter rope is found, and one end is fastened carefully about the Negro's neck. He is is thrust along the bridge. The other end of the rope is fastened to the bridge...
Pittsburgh has hitherto been criticized for its ultra-conservative awards. The jury, bold enough to defy Pittsburgh prejudice, consisted of: Augustus John, London; George Desvallieres, Paris; Jonas Lie and Horatio Walker, New York...
What then is the answer? If coaching staff and material are both of high calibre and a crew fails to win, where does the fault lie? Does it not consist perhaps in the unique relation in Harvard rowing between captain, and advisory committee and coach...
...microscope. The needles, the essential part of the machine, are finer than hairs and are formed like a "J" or an "L." The apparatus is superior to similar devices now in use, in that it is steadier. It requires much practice, however, to get a cell to lie still while a needle is being forced through it. The machine will make possible the study of the fundamental unit of living human protoplasm and its functions-a goal at which biologists have been aiming for years. Experiments are being conducted with minute eggs cut in two, to see whether each half...