Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minor points it is almost needless to touch. It would be insulting to suppose that a man who has more or less successfully passed the ordeal of the Harvard entrance examinations does not know that grotesque gold pins embellished with cabalistic signs and Greek letters are ornaments suited only to the barbarous taste of the Far West; or that on public occasions bad hats, seedy coats, and pepper-and-salt trousers should be laid aside. The suspicious diamonds displayed by the itinerant tradesmen who replenish their wardrobes from the refuse of our own would in themselves be a sufficient caution...
Before her last voyage she was overhauled in drydock at Brooklyn. A minor collision in the Erie basin as she left dry-dock did no more than scrape paint. After this she was examined by three U. S. Department of Commerce inspectors, who spent three days in their work and certified her "seaworthy and equipped according to law." During the inspection every lifeboat was tested; filled with men, lowered to the water and raised again...
EXCEEDING SMALL-A minor Saturday's Children dealing with the life and death of two tiny people whom happiness snubs (TIME...
Last week when Efrem Zimbalist appeared in Manhattan for the first time in two years, he played some of his own work, a G Minor sonata for violin and piano, a suite by Joseph Achron. Then he played the Glazunov Concerto in A Minor...
...bewail thine awful sin" Bach Professor Davison God is my Shepherd Dvorak I will sing thee songs of gladness Dvorak Miss Loring Prelude and Fugue in G major Bach Professor Davison Du bist die Ruh Schubert Wie Melodien ziehy es Brahms Miss Loring Sketch Schumann Chorale in T minor Franck...