Word: minors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...existence of the manuscripts until they were completed. Mr. Coolidge prepared them in longhand and then dictated them to his personal stenographer. After the manuscripts were completed he showed them to his official secretaries, Mr. Sanders and Mr. Clark, and asked for suggestions. They made one or two minor suggestions. While I had told Mr. Coolidge that I believed the articles in which the American public would be most interested would be those in which he told his reactions, as a man, from the experience of being President of the United States, I did not, in any way, dictate what...
...high light of the program will be the rendition of "Cum Sancto Spiritu" which is a portion of the stupendous B Minor Mass by Bach. This number, to be sung by both clubs, will be accompanied by two pianos and the organ. The Harvard Glee Club is now making plans to sing the entire B Minor Mass two years from...
...story of the star-crossed love of Paolo for his brother's wife has, however, a certain static lustre in the Phillips version, and Miss Cowl is radiant in her picturization of what is, after all, a minor role. Philip Merivale is a simple and direct Paolo and Guy Standing gives to Giovanni all the sinister quality the verse will allow. Katherine Emmet's Lucrezie also is excellent. But it is not easy to imagine anyone becoming excited enough about it all to telephone his favorite ticket speculator...
McCarthy is a quiet, unostentatious leader. He did not make a Big League name as a player. In the minor leagues he was considered a competent, not a brilliant infielder, but eventually he became a manager at Louisville (American Association). He began winning pennants. He attracted Tycoon Wrigley's eye. At Chicago he built carefully, and his final punch came with the acquisition of Rogers Hornsby, for whom he traded five players and considerable currency to Boston. The addition of Hornsby gives Chicago a "Murderer's Row" of batters comparable to the famed Yankee quartet of Ruth, Gehrig...
...dismay of sensitive folk and the delight of the pugnacious, the audience hissed, hissssed. Ironically, Conductor Stokowski motioned his men to rise, to receive an ovation never given. The few faithful who remained after the interval heard Mozart's G minor Symphony and the Third Leonore Overture...