Word: mod
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rector William G. Thayer of St. Mark's: "I have confidence that the mod ern schoolboy is going to be a real help in making things better...
...Hungarian for "Hungarian King" (pronounced Mod'djor...
...hail every week as a great artist some singer hitherto ungraced by U.S. laurels. Two weeks ago it was Baritone Bonelli. Last week it was Luella Melms, coloratura singer, born in Appleton, Wis. She made her debut in Rigoletto. Staid people have been foolish enough to believe that a mod ern audience could not be more than politely moved by the graceful insipidities of the old score-that the days were past when a perfect trill was a signal for young men in evening clothes to unhitch the horses of a prima donna's carriage and pull her home...
Opposed to it are the National Association of Manufacturers, the Mod- eration League of Pennsylvania, the Sentinels of the Republic, the Women's Constitutional League of Maryland, the National Grange, the American Farm Bureau Federation and many business and commercial organizations throughout the country...
...experts designated by the Reparations Commission began their secret deliberations, mankind has been pestered with mad, wild guesses on the part of neurotic journalists who have professed to have unimpeachable information regarding the unvoiced thoughts of each individual expert. Alas, this harmless mental vaporing is now démodé! Last week the experts presented their reports to the Reparations Commission which published them...