Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcing Chaliapin's forthcoming operatic venture (TIME, Dec. 28, p. 24), you mention the dear basso as the Barber in Rossini's musical comedy. Chaliapin plays Don Basilio, the Music-master, not the Barber...
...leading newspaper, the New York Times, published its account of the Scopes appeal on page 6. In Lawyer Darrow's home town the Chicago Tribune published it on page 18. The New York Herald Tribune found space on page 13. None thought the matter worthy of editorial mention. Thus passes the glorious news of the world...
...designated one day last week as a holiday. It is to appear in the college calendar annually hereafter, the first Friday after Christmas vacation. On it the students will be expected to pay their debts, collect their loans, among themselves. The edict on this "Debt Limitations Day" made no mention of worried druggists, gasoline venders, mournful hash-housekeepers, candy men, laundresses, Smoke Shoppe proprietors, collegiate outfitters...
...best books of the past year is impossible, and to attempt it is ridiculous. But it is possible and perhaps not altogether useless to consider briefly those books which now seem interesting, worth reading or examining. I don't pretend to have read all the books I shall mention, and whatever hasty opinions of them I give are formed merely from what I've read in or about them, or from an undigested consensus of the remarks of other people. As my list is made up almost wholly from memory, it doubtless omits many books of great merit; includes several...
...Since this act, there have been six armed Syrian insurrections. Only one of these received any mention in the newspapers of this country. This notice was confined to a small piece in a New York paper saying that American property was endangered and that United States destroyers had sailed to protect it. Three successive French military governors have been sent to Syria, each one worse than his predecessor. Recently the home government realizing its mistake established a civil government...