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...seldom reap ease by changing their professions. To command an Italian man-of-war would have been a sinecure compared to the business that occupies him now? a business that involves 80 principal artists, a chorus of nearly 300, an orchestra of 120, 12 assistant conductors, a ballet of 80 and 700 miscellaneous stagehands, ticket takers, officeworkers, wire-pullers. Each season 4 millions is taken in by the box office. Each season Manager Gatti-Casazza goes to probe in Europe for new operas, new singers. It was about some of these that he read so sonorously to the pressmen while...
There "knock-out" is a kind of smart chicanery by which art dealers reap illicit gains. Instead of bidding against each other, they obtain valuable objects at insignificant cost by forming a pool and appointing a representative to bid for them. Whatever is bought in the interests of the pool is sold again to private individuals or at other auctions and the profits divided. It was an open secret among the Trade in London that the Leverhulme "knock-out" would net its participants approximately half a million dollars out of the pockets of the estate...
...First Vice President they chose Melvin A. Traylor, President of the First Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago. As Second Vice President, Thomas R. Preston, President of the Hamilton Trust & Savings Bank of Spring City, Tenn., will reap the reward of having worked without pay to learn the banking business, some 35 years...
...September, Explorer Amundsen will lecture formally in Oslo, then come to the U. S. to reap the bumper lecture-crop he needs to go on another Polar pilgrimage for Science...
...these with fact and clarity, in proportion to his industry and mental alertness. This hypothesis would seem to be supported by the theory of an English scientist, who says that sixteen years is the age at which a man reaches his maximum intelligence: after that he may sow study, reap facts, thresh theories, feed on observation, and digest experience; but he will never possess a sharper mental instrument than at the end of his boyhood...