Word: loth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dispute has arisen. All Haydn's bones up to his head are in Eisenstadt where for years Haydn lived and worked. Eisenstadt wants to stage the major celebration but she wants also the skull, possessed now by the Vienna Society of the Friends of Music. The Vienna Friends, loth to lend it, received it from the heirs of the morbid jailer. When the authorities discovered and traced the theft ten years after it was made, the culprits procured the skull of somebody else, surrendered that...
...London's Social Season was about to begin. It is an ancient immutable law that The Season (when George is in his Palace and debutantes are presented at Court) starts on the first Friday in May with the Private View of the Royal Academy. The Season ends on the loth and nth of July with the Eton-Harrow cricket match at Lord...
...July, schooled in Connecticut (Trinity College), has been a missionary on the Dakota plains, a vicar in Manhattan, a rector in San Antonio, Tex., a Y. M. C. A. secretary in France. Last week he preached a lenten sermon at St. Stephen's Church at loth and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia. Excerpt...
...many general newspapers (in Manhattan 10; Brooklyn 4, exclusive of financial papers, racing sheets, etc.); 2) Three papers-morning, evening, Sunday-in the hands of one publisher are uneconomical; the profits of one are eaten by another's losses; and the advertiser, regarding them as one publication, is loth to "duplicate" his appropriations; 3) the World as a liberal, "middle ground" newspaper has been choked off between the rank, weedlike under growth of the tabloids, and the shading branches of the "ultraconservative" papers, the Times and Herald Tribune and evening Sun over-head.* To one group the World lost...
...Spanish Army every loth man is an officer. Up to last week ordinary lieutenants received the miserable pay of $440 yearly. But there are three very special lieutenants who have been drawing $3.300 per year each?no one in Spain knows why, or at least no one tells...