Word: noted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...urge you in formulating your recommendation for Congress to note a remark that the dean of investment-company managers, the man who stood at the top of his profession throughout the world, whose companies' assets are reputed to total the equivalent of $500,000,000, the late Robert Fleming of London, made many years ago to us. He said in substance: 'Don't tie yourself up with too many restrictions. Restrictions that you think today are for the best interests of investors will rise up some day to plague you-and will not protect them...
This is a sorry commentary on the intellectual pleasures of our countrymen, but it is encouraging to note that the center of vaudeville allusion has changed. Not geographically, it is true, but functionally, now dealing more frequently with reproduction as opposed to elimination...
True, that appliance euphemistically dubbed the W.C. is still a standby of the funsters. And in this connection it is interesting to note that these initials have been absorbed into more languages than any other English expression, second only to the American "O. K." And while the pronunciation of the magic word in German or French may not be at once recognizable, the handwriting on the wall is always plain to any literate person, thus demonstrating simultaneously the advantages of an education, and the marvellous potentialities of an international languages, such as Esperanto, to supplement that of love...
...composed in the form of a three movement symphony, it violates the classic symphonic principles by its attempt at character delineation and its utilization of representative themes, much as in Wagnerian opera. The characters whom Liszt describes musically are Faust himself, Gretchen, and finally Mephistopheles. It is interesting to note that the combination of the divine side of Faust's nature and the nobility of womanhood as expressed in Gretchen are sufficiently strong to vanquish Mephistopheles and to give a triumphant ending to the work. Wagner's Faust Overture is also on the program. This was originally intended...
William E. Hocking, Harvard philosopher, believes that Americans are not grave enough. The Times quotes him as saying: -- "If the Puritans overweighed the, note of gravity, we are at least as prone to overdo the stimulation of nonchalance. And the habit of treating all things as if they were equally light to our abundant powers and emotional buoyancy is apt to leave us emotionally bankrupt in the presence of the objectively deeper passes of experience...