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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concerts. When asked by pressmen why he had never sung at the Metropolitan, the cork came out of his bottle. Said he: "Because they will not pay my price.* I can sing well. I know it. I won't pay to be heard here. By that, I mean that I will not give an agent 40% of my earnings just for an engagement at the Metropolitan." Philadelphia and Boston, however, are scheduled to hear him. They will pay his price...
This is not to say that history is remote from literature; does not Voltaire define history as "une fable convenue"? Nor that economics is devoid of human interest; art goes a-begging when men starve. On the contrary we mean that poetry is one of the data of history, is history interpreted to us from the past, written for us in the present, and predicted to us of the future; and similarly that not a few of the lessons of economics are inferable from the dramas of Brieux, Hauptmann, or Galsworthy, as well as from the paintings of Menzel...
...have in our Police Administration in Vienna 270 academic men-I mean men educated at the university who had taken the examinations for the bar and other professional pursuits. The influence of these men has been great on the education of our policemen on the streets...
...spirit. Thus only can the art of advertising continue to be the handmaiden of human progress, leading the weary feet of all nations forward along convergent paths until, by and by, we shall reach the sunlit land of human understanding, complete cooperation, friendship and peace, which will mean the dawning of the Kingdom of God upon earth...
Before a Congressional Commission investigating land grants to the Northern Pacific R. R., one D. F. McGowan, attorney for the Forestry Service, declared that a comma in legal writing may mean as much money as a cipher on the left side of a decimal point...