Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hidden the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski. But the audience was slightly disconcerted during this notable visit. Desiring to "intensify the mystery and eloquence and beauty of the music" Conductor Stokowski had made his men invisible, with only steady little stars on their music stands. Obliged, nevertheless, to retain his own visibility, he had arranged for a spotlight directly over his head. This was what disconcerted, for it was no modest white spotlight, but a refulgent yellow sun. It shed a mighty and beatific radiance upon the waving Stokowski mane, which, grizzled by daylight, became golden, heavenly, divine...
Morning naps and week-ends will crow in popularity. However, if Yale authorities can find enough attractive bribes to retain the nurse, they are indeed to be commended Lightly. Later, perhaps, they can even tell us how much to offer our nurse...
There is no idle curiosity to Dr. MacDonald's searchings. "It is by no means impossible that the study he suggests might lead to a further wider knowledge which would ease the final hours of those who retain consciousness till the last...
This summer he campaigned again for a return triumphant, en revanche, on no particular issue save that he would very much like to be elected in place of present able Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton") Smith, who naturally desires to retain his seat. Speaker Edgar A. Brown of the South Carolina House of Representatives likewise...
...tame rabbits. Snails fried alive in butter have a quaint taste. They are tough to chew. Human flesh, when the source is not known, is tender and sweet. Toasted grasshoppers have a nutty flavor. Earth worms, washed clean and gently stewed, have a tangy tartness. Eels even cooked retain their stench of the sea. Snakes. . . . An atavistic nausea sickened the boys. Black jungle folk might drool over the carcass of a boa constrictor. But Penn State students! None the less they were themselves to eat snake flesh to maintain a college tradition. Goggly-eyed, some watched their cook strip...