Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born and educated in Canada, of British parentage. A legal career had originally been planned for him : but the lure of the pen led him into newspaper and magazine work which, in turn, took him to New York. The Youth's Companion was his first literary medium. His chief previous publications are Prom the Life, Some Distinguished Americans, The American Mind in Action, The Secret Springs...
Jeritza's triumph came later in the first week. Wagner's Tannhaüser was her medium. Never more beautiful to the eye, she succeeded in making the too-good-to-be-true Elisabeth almost pathetically human. Herr Laubenthal in the title role saved himself no effort, and therein lay his defeat...
...opening of the second week at the Metropolitan was no less a triumph for Maria Jeritza, Lohenarin her medium. Other features of the second lap of the season in that temple of patrician appreciation were Andrea Chenier and The Tales of Hoffmann (revival)-well-tried pieces both...
...editorials dealt with matters of no great importance and were often only exercises in style. Harvard has long needed a periodical which should be a forum for open discussion. The CRIMSON, being a newspaper primarily, does not have the space for this. Clearly, then, the Advocate becomes the logical medium. It seems now to be fulfilling this function. The editorials in the November Advocate deal with vital problems and are not mere literary essays. Harvard is a great University and, like all great institutions, is subject to criticism. It is well that this criticism should come from within rather than...
That actual spirit manifestations occur, scientists regard as probable, but not yet definitely proved. Until some medium succeeds in producing more than futile remarks from spirits that they are happy in Heaven, and an overturned table, hard-headed investigators will remain unconvinced...