Word: retold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gloomy tale is retold with vindictive emphasis. The names of the anarchists are Macready and Capraro; Macready is engaged to marry the lovely and emotional daughter of a restauranteur who himself confesses in court to the murder for which Macready and Capraro are electrocuted, out of sight of the audience. In the courtroom scene, far more exciting than its actual model, Macready asks pertinent questions and Capraro is full of idealistic gentleness...
...American Club members he retold how he had helped make eau potable a wide reality in France. It began at Verdun, during the War. Water was polluted; typhoid threatened the troops. He invented an automatic device to pump hypochlorite of soda into the drinking water. Two and a half to five pounds of hypochlorite liberated enough chlorine to kill the germs in one million gallons of water...
...senior officer of the U. S. Lines and Herbert Hartley, having had the bad luck to run aground first the Manchuria and then the Mongolia of the American Line, was a skipper without a ship and with no great hopes of getting one. Last week, Mr. Hartley himself retold the "fluke" by which he became Commodore...
Geniuses FIGHTERS OF FATE-J. Arthur Myers-Williams & Wilkins ($3). Author Myers has selected 24 distinguished hosts to the bacillus of tuberculosis, living and dead, and retold the story of their lives, in detail where their struggle with the disease is concerned. Paganini is first. Then comes Schiller. Then Bichat. A gloomy procession which marched (bravely and blindly) before the day of Koch and his discovery, before modern science had tamed the scourge. Gradually the light dawns. The last fighter depicted is Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, fruitful and saved. The author disbelieves in the theory that tuberculosis produces...
...even more neglected Revolutionary figure, one Haym Salomon. Mr. Salomon was a Jewish banker in Philadelphia. To him Jews wished to erect a statue in Madison Square, Manhattan. When the Municipal Art Commission refused to approve the statue, the cry of race prejudice was raised and Revolutionary history was retold to demonstrate Mr. Salomon's right to a monument. It was the Jewish "contention that Mr. Salomon had loaned to Robert Morris much of the money which Mr. Morris later contributed to the Continental Government; it was the Commission's contention that Mr. Salomon's exploits were largely legendary...