Word: outright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wagnerian Opera Festival should teach a lesson to producers of opera: You can't go out and pick up an orchestra as you would a pair of shoes. The singers are in most respects excellent artists. One could easily call them outright a great troupe if it were not for the matter of acoustics. The Germans are playing at the Manhattan Opera House. Vocalists may have beautiful, ringing tone in that auditorium, which in another theatre they lack. But the singers of the Wagnerian Festival seem excellent, notably the baritone Schorr. By comparison they have made the orchestra...
Secretary Hughes letter to the Wood row Wilson Club will settle few of the objections which have been raised to President Harding's message to Congress on April 12, 1921. When he rejected the League of Nations outright, and to Secretary Hughes' own address at Symphony Hall on October 30 last. Moreover, to explain the abandonment of the pro-League policy which Mr. Handing sponsored on August 28, 1920 and which Mr. Hughes himself predicted in the statement of the Thirty-One, Mr. Hughes says that the Administration was forced to deal with the situation as it found...
According to the original plan adopted by the Supreme Council of the League of Nations in 1919, Upper Silesia was to be given outright to the Poles because of the predominance of Polish population. But this idea has been abandoned due to the strong claims of the Germans who maintain that this country,-some 5000 square miles in area,-having been in German hands for seven hundred years, has become thoroughly Teutonized and does not desire, therefore, to become a part of Poland. Furthermore, the Germans claim that they will be unable to pay their war debt without...
...only this," comments Webb, "but the game has not improved as a sport wherein fundamentals have held their own against 'breaks' and outright luck, and it is quite natural that the forward pass should stand the blame...
...protection of France. It was not the least of the services performed for France by that wise old man, George Clemenceau, that he refused to be swept on by the extremists and limited his ultimate demands to the substantial results which the treaty secured. Comparatively few Frenchmen demanded the outright annexation of the left bank, the speaker admitted, nor was the number large who wished to prepare for it by an indefinitely prolonged military occupation. It was maintained that this was the real frontier of all the Allies, the front line that must be held at all cost against Germany...