Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doll with a soul, by Igor Stravinsky, was revived last week, at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. There was only one Russian in the cast. He, Adolph Bolm, took the part of the sawdust Caliban, capered foolishly, pathetically, to his special tune- a fanfare for two trumpets a minor second apart. Rosina Galli was the limber ballerina. At the end of the performance, Mr. Stravinsky was discovered to be present, hailed before the curtain, presented with an overstuffed floral wreath, according to Metropolitan tradition...
...President's room, Air. Coolidge signed bills. The Cabinet stood around. A curious crowd peered in at the door. He signed the second Deficiency Bill. He signed innumerable minor bills. He laid out the Legislative Appropriation Bill (containing a pay raise for Senators, Congressmen, Cabinet and Vice President)-a bill which he had brought with him from the White House. But he did not sign it. He took a long drink of water. He rose and spoke in low tones with General Lord. For ten minutes, he did nothing. Finally, at 11:54, he sat down and attached his signature...
...usual last-day filibuster did not develop in the Senate, which passed away calmly, giving hasty consideration to only a few minor bills. The House did not give over its closing hour or so tc songs as it often does. Instead there were eulogies and valedictories because Speaker Gillet was leaving to join the Senate. Representative Longworth, majority Floor Leader, retiring from that post to become Speaker, also spoke...
...tangled, at the peril of his life in the cunning of his Uncle Nevil, diabolical usurper. Murder creeps by night; Anticlea Loring (foundling, not blood-cousin to David) has flaming red hair and a high temper; wedding bells peal over the bad uncle's grave. The minor characters do not quite catch their Dickensian accent, but Farnol is Farnol through the thickest of thick and the gayest of thin...
More than any other man, he was responsible for modifying and modernizing football, making of it the great American game as it is played today. And if football owes its very personality to Walter Camp, many is the minor sport now played in American colleges which in an entirely different way, owes its existence to him. Minor sports do not now, and never have, paid for themselves. In the early days the problem of athletic deficits seemed an insoluble one and wholly irreconcilable with the necessity of maintaining diversified sports. As treasurer of the Financial Union at Yale, Camp worked...