Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other phase of his college life." This I believe to be very unwise unless he intends to become a coach, or enter professionally into the athletic field. My principal objection to varsity athletics is that they are no longer amateurish, but are fast becoming professional not so much in the popular sense that athletes are being paid, but in the sense that the varsity athlete makes his sport his vocation, his profession by virtue of devoting more time and thought to it than to any other phase of his college life...
...loans which fertilize German industry as the waters of the Nile fertilize the parched soil of Egypt." As a "borrowing man" he enjoys the thoroughgoing contempt of Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, always a "bear" on German futures, who constantly grumbles that the Fatherland has already borrowed far too much...
Sometimes, even among the best families, accidents will happen. In Nagyrev village, one Mrs. Fazekas was much in demand as a "wise woman'' or midwife because of the frequency with which unwanted babies were born dead under her ministrations. Unfortunately mothers often died as well. One day Mrs. Fazekas saw a fly sip from a saucer in which was a sheet of arsenical flypaper, drop dead. She saw a chicken eat the fly and drop dead in turn. Mrs. Fazekas pondered these interesting phenomena, then ordered great quantities of flypaper from neighboring villages...
...cooperation' on the basis of possibility of permanent production with the assistance of such distributing organizations as are willing to cooperate, and do not let us worry about those who will not do so." U. S. oilmen, pondering this last pearl of wisdom from the Shell, wondered how much of Sir Henri's U. S. activity was designed to strengthen his international position...
Pompous Beniamino Gigli was better as Don Ottavio; Elisabeth Rethberg sang primly as Donna Elvira, Editha Fleischer prettily as the peasant Zerlina. Credit for a satisfying performance, however, belonged not so much to the singers as to Conductor Tullio Serafin, who gave the score a glancing, crackling charm...