Word: render
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prisoners was caused by the Powers' insistence on negotiations with the bandits; that guarantees against repetition must be reconsidered, because, in the absence of official connivance in the kidnapping and of an anti-foreign motive, in their present form they would be likely to incense the people and render nugatory security for foreign lives and property. Without foreign coercion, the note said, the Chinese Government is punishing responsible officials and making every effort to suppress brigandage. The scheme for railway police, put forward by the Diplomats in their note under the head of guarantees, was criticized principally because...
Hitherto experiments in this direction have been inconclusive because of the difficulty of obtaining suitable subjects. Puppies purchased in ordinary ways may have had slight cases of the disease which would render them immune to infection. Or again they may become accidentally infected by importation of the germs by attendants. The new plan will eliminate these possibilities as far as possible...
...there was some disturbance and even a mention of legal proceedings arising over the fact that Jules Daiber of New York, who had been Mme. Melius' manager, became the manager of Mme. Walska. Mme. Melius maintained that she had a contract with Mr. Daiber which bound him to render her exclusive managerial service. The two ladies were thus brought into rivalship. There will be much gossip about Mme. Melius' attempt to conquer Paris where Mme Walska failed...
...dates on the trip which have yet to be filled. The remaining engagements are at Wellesley on February 28, at the Intercollegiates in New York on March 1, and at Smith on April 26. In addition to these trips the club in connection with the Boston Symphony Orchestra will render Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at Symphony Hall on March 30. When the schedule is completed it will include approximately eight more concerts...
...exquisite. It is the purpose of the Society to demonstrate that the mandolin, far from being necessarily only a toy, is a serious, dignified and important instrument, one well fitted to satisfy the highest artistic demands of music. The Society has a band of one hundred expert players, who render in grandiose style arrangements of the compositions of the great composers. Listeners at the Berlin concert commented admiringly on the great, noble tone of the bass mandolins-almost organlike in richness-which moved in stately measures beneath the delicate, tintillating lacework of the smaller instruments...