Word: minor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...central figure is an elderly English novelist off for a holiday in Venice. In the surrounding group are his recently acquired mistress; an effusive lady novelist; a direct descendant of Casanova; a lean clergyman and his equally bewildered wife?plus one or two minor folk. These chatter aimlessly about love and its various imitations. The lady novelist falls into the canal...
...proved last week that there was more than one Bach worthy of mention. On the occasion of her appearance as soloist with the Flonzaley Quartet she played, for the first time in the U. S., Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach's* (son of the great Johann Sebastian) Concerto in G Minor for Harpsichord and String Quartet, scored by herself from the manuscript parts found in the sale of Prieger's collection at Bonn...
...life by getting a job as "bellhop" in a hotel. He is good-looking and of a pleasing modesty--his only virtues--and his "personality," as they say in business, brings in easy money and speedy opportunities for mild vice. A rich, but otherwise negligible, uncle gives him a minor executive position in a collar factory. He seduces a girl in his department and a little later is dazzled and attracted by a flapper of the smart local world who being weak in mind and character and susceptible to good looks, wants to marry him. In order to rid himself...
Appeals. During the week the Government of Greece appealed to the League to settle certain minor Greco-Turkish frontier disputes, and informed the League Secretariat that the Turkish Government had previously refused a Greek request that these matters be referred to the World Court...
...they have got into building up a better Harvard ball team. Also, there are about half the men down there that ought to be supporting the sport in a college of this size. Too many potential ball players are fooling around with crew and minor sports at which they can never succeed and others are spending the spring in doing nothing at all. Baseball players can be developed and all we ask for is a bunch of men who are willing to work and learn the game...