Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...highest court of France has acquitted Mr. Samuel Schwartzbard from any guilt in the Petlura affair, yet you, in your supposedly unbiased presentation of news, in TIME, Nov. 7, have called this man "murderer" and "culprit...
...phrase often penned by Samuel Pepys, who will live in the genial preservative of a diary he kept in the 17th Century as long as there is English literature. Mr. Pepys was not, in the Victorian interpretation, a strictly moral man, and it is from his amatory propensities that much of this graceful comedy is spun. He visits a lady's lodging with the worst motives in the world; is interrupted by the arrival of His Gracious Majesty Charles II who has practically the same motives; is further embarrassed by the entrance of irate Mrs. Pepys. Wallace Eddinger plays...
Perhaps the most interesting volume now on display is the only known presentation copy of "Purchas: His Pilgrimes", printed in London in 1624. The meticulous inscription on the flyleaf reads in part: "To...His Mties Sollicitor The Author Samuel Purchas; in thankfull acknowledgement of a Loving friend...
...Sandrini, Heinrich Schlusnus, Robert Ringling (son of the late circus proprietor Charles Ringling), baritones; Chase Baromeo, bass. Maria Yurieva and Vechslav Swoboda will head the new ballet. Giorgio Polacco is again musical director, Roberto Moranzoni, Henry G. Weber and Polacco the conductors, Herbert Johnson manager. Good news to President Samuel Insull and to the 2,400 citizens who guarantee $550,000 a year was the announcement that the largest subscription sale in the Company's history has brought the average of seat sales up to approximately 80% for the five regular series, that the Saturday matinees are sold...
...Bach program was the announcement for Harold Samuel's Manhattan recital† last week. It was a rainy night but the hall was filled. Some had heard him in 1924 when he came from England to play at Elizabeth Shurtliff Coolidge's Berkshire Festival; some had attended his six Bach recitals last year, given on six consecutive days, had heard people so far forget themselves as to cheer him-and Bach. Some went to hear him for the first time-a man who, according to Critic Lawrence Gilman, has made All-Bach recitals as popular in the British...