Word: morely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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At the premiere of this vigorous, ethical tale 19 years ago. Composer Puccini and Author Belasco were both present. Puccini was awarded an eight-foot wreath, Belasco was "divinely happy." Yet he declared he was happier last week. Jeritza and he took a dozen bows together. He kissed her hand...
Proud that "60% of the 358,442 subscribers to the Course and Service are Senior Executives . . . the average age of Institute subscribers is 37. ... One out of three Institute men is a university graduate," the Institute modestly insists: "You will never find us claiming that every man who enrolls in...
Dramatic critics, like oldtime court jesters, have more than poet's license. The monarch public, easy to amuse, hard to offend, suffers them gladly. Avowedly criticizing plays, they sometimes overindulge in gossip, in personalities. Some days they go too far. Manhattan has its suave George Jean Nathan. London has emaciated...
Publishers pay good money for memberships in the Associated Press. Newspaperdom is agreed that an A. P. franchise can be more or less definitely priced. But last week in Washington the Federal Board of Tax Appeals ruled that a press association membership has no definite value, is an "intangible asset...
"[The mechanistic] theory is . . . bankrupt. It has, in fact, ceased to interest physiologists in recent times. . . . One often meets the statement . . . that scientific physiology is progressively revealing the mechanism of life. In the light of actual progress this is quite untrue, and can only be described as claptrap. . . . Science brings...