Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the time Victor Herbert turned to operettas there seemed no limit to the inspiration which prompted one melody after another. The disappointment of his life was his failure to make a lasting name as a serious composer. He wrote concertos, cantatas, symphonic suites, all long forgotten. He wrote two operas: His Natoma was produced in 1911 by the Chicago Opera Company with Mary Garden and John McCormack, survived 38 performances; Madeleine (1914) lasted only four at Manhattan's Metropolitan...
...Davis Cup history for the past nine years has taken the form of prodigious ballyhoo preceding a thrashing. This year the ballyhoo, as loud as usual, was briefer but the thrashing was identical. Rules limit each team to four men. Before the matches started, the U. S. selection committee picked Donald Budge and Wilmer Allison for the singles matches, passed over Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, who had beaten both in practice, chose Budge and Gene Mako as the U. S. doubles team. On the courts of the Germantown Cricket Club, where France won the Cup from...
...House committee also provided for twelve new destroyers, six submarines, 333 airplanes, upped the Navy's enlisted force from 93,500 to 100,000, the Marine Corps' from 16,000 to 17,000. Declaring Government building costs greater than those of private manufacturers, the committee proposed to limit Government aircraft construction to experimental engines, primary training planes. Notably missing from the bill was any provision for airships to replace the crashed Shenandoah, Akron and Macon...
...Future of American. According to Mencken, the sky's the limit. He points out the dominant position of the English language today: in what he calls conservative figures, 174,000,000 people speak it as their native tongue and another 17,000,000 speak it besides their own. Nearest world-competitor is Spanish, with a little more than half as many. And "no other language is spreading so fast or into such remote areas." English looks like the lingua franca of the future, but probably not in its present form. What will it look like? Says Mencken...
...those institutions through which Fascism claims to have solved the problem of the relations between capital and labor." Professor Salvemini has not relied upon the observations of contemporary historians, but has drawn his information almost exclusively from Fascist sources--Italian newspapers, political speeches, and the like. There is no limit to his poignant ridicule of Mussolini's defenders. He takes delight in combusting the wild assumptions and vague generalities of British critics, notably Mr. Goad and Major Barnes, two superficial students of the new "revolution...