Word: roles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps Senator Watson and farm-allies had been too frisky. It appeared that the President had skillfully cast the responsibility for farm legislation back on Congress, with the result that farm-champions might be forced to abandon their heroic role and take what modicum of farm relief the Administration was willing to approve...
...assembled amid the awful diplomatic secrecy characteristic of all meetings of the Little Entente.* The announced agenda included discussion of: 1) The European situation-presumably reference to the growing ascendancy of Italy† as the protector of the Little Entente and the coincident ambiguous position of France in that role. Notorious are Mussolini's secret conferences with Jugoslav Premier Nintchitch, his furtherance of a Roumanian loan at Rome, his diplomatic feelers into the Eastern Balkans, notably signalized last week by the bestowal upon Greek Dictator-President Pangalos of the Italian Great Cross. 2) Proposals to abolish inter-Little Entente...
...House was half full. There was a general air of apathy over the stalls and boxes. Even the orchestra, with which I had had one hasty and slovenly rehearsal, seemed half asleep and it was thus that I sang my first role in Covent Garden...
...third. . . . Again the house was only half full, the critics were apathetic, and the performance of a standard very much lower than that to which I had been accustomed in Brussels. Two days later I was again in Mr. Harris' office. He offered me the role of the page in the Ballo in Maschera-and my reply was to pack my trunks and to go straight back to Brussels...
WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS- J. M. Barrie's fascinating comedy with Helen Hayes occupied expertly in the old Maude Adams role...