Word: richard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voting strength at the present time amounting to 25.1%. Neither the United Gas Improvement Company nor Public Service Corporation of New Jersey are "Mellon-controlled." The so-called "Mellon interests" have no holding-of Public Service whatever, and a very small holding in the United Gas Improvement Company. Mr. Richard B. Mellon is a director of the United Gas Improvement Company, whose judgment and ability is highly respected by his associates. I know whereof I speak in this matter because I have been President of Public Service for more than 26 years-ever since its formation-and am a director...
...tterdammerung is a turgid opera by Richard Wagner, the composer to whose music most Nordics are married and buried ("Wedding March,'' ''Death March" from Lohengrin...
...similar to the minor sports "H", was the chief item of business transacted at the first meeting of the Minor Sports Council last night. The council, which is a subsidiary of the Student Council and which is composed of the captains and managers of the minor sports teams elected Richard Chandler Aldrich '31 as president and Phillips Finlay '31 as secretary of the organization...
...heroically borne ordeals of Job to the wretched suicide of Anna Karenina, the great stories of the race have been compounded of suffering. Anguish is constant in Ultima Thule, which is already being called great. Though modern critics are hasty with their wreaths, this story of impoverished Dr. Richard Mahony, 49, who began anew in Australia, is indubitably a deep-dug, searing novel. Huddling his wife and three lateborn children within bleak walls, the Doctor felt too poor to entertain. He thus lost contacts, clientele. Then he removed to another town, where one of his daughters died, his own abilities...
...Leipzig for the career of concert pianist, she published in 1908 a musical novel called Maurice Guest. Admired by discerning critics, this novel has enjoyed quiet prestige for 20 years-from time to time a new edition is printed. In 1911 she planned a trilogy. The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, The Way Home, were commercial failures. Ultima Thule is the completing volume. Written in a rich, loamy, colloquial style, charged with vitality, it has won for its authoress long-awaited acclaim...