Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this none too lucid metaphor the Premier referred with intentional vagueness to one of the chief problems of the Imperial Conference: how to grant the Dominions the freedom they ask yet retain them within the Commonwealth. Last week a notable pioneering step was taken when, with the consent of the Imperial Conference, the Canadian Government appointed the Hon. Vincent Massey to be its Minister Plenipotentiary Extraordinary...
...beefsteaks; she does not improve. The doctors prescribe Africa, but with all the comforts of civilization, she does hot improve. There the play ends. Asked what I should do with the money of the award, I observed: 'What I do with the rest of my money, which is none of the public's business...
...called "Eastwood Essence" and gave to friends at Christmas time. His friends urged him to have more and more vials prepared. In time, Eastwood Essence became almost as popular with some members of the New York Stock Exchange as a soaring stock. Other gin essences* appeared after Eastwood, but none so uniformly palatable as that first of them all, which has never yet been commercialized...
...jealous husband. The hazard of guessing whether one's wife is faithful or perfidious suggests the title, suggests also Act II in which agitate Andor Tamas (Philip Merivale) imagines that phases of his own marital relations are revealed in sundry characters of a popular-priced brothel. None other than Estelle Winwood plays his uncertain spouse. She also plays the Hungarian Rhapsody on a player-piano that in one performance, at least, failed to synchronize with her fingers. Such embarrassments, eve r-p resent threats in the theatre, are sometimes boons to bored audiences. Future performances should refine the generally...
...singers of the English poetic renaissance of the seventeenth century, none sang more sweetly than Richard Lovelace whose tiny body of musical verse still delights the lovers of poetry. Imprisonment for his part in the Revolution in 1642 could not quench his ardor nor still his lyre, and he sang unceasingly of his Aramantha or his Lucasta. His lyrics have all the freshness of the Elizabethan morning, and breathe the spirit of liberty that characterized his age and is the keynote of the work of such of his followers as Byron and Shelley...