Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...saw thousands of women and children literally starving to death. We found hundreds of destitute families living in crudely constructed, bare, board shacks . . . (New York Daily News...
...knew the Schubert to whom music and poetry were the same. No one saw him up early in the mornings, taking the lyrics of Goethe, of Schiller, of Shakespeare and putting them into music, one after the other, with incredible swiftness, writing first drafts and calling them done...
Boston is cautious about its entertainment, but its inhabitants came in fashionable crowds to see the whites of Miss Garden's eyes rolling about with passion, pleasure or dismay. As Fanny Legrand, in a devil-red gown, they saw her gobble up the heart of innocent Jean Gaussin. With ill-disguised delight, they saw her track this peasant boy to his lodgings and take up residence therein...
...dances and theatre performances were called off. The only thing that continued was the opera, and if we sought amusement that was where we had to go. I went every night, and that is when I developed the taste for my career. But it was not until I saw a performance of "Tristan and Isolde" that something absolutely changed in me and showed me my way in life. That was when 1 was 16. Since then I have folowed my present career systematically, studying in Vienna most of the time. Four years ago I joined the Chicago Opera Company...
Braille is familiar, but too few people know its history, understand how blind people use it. In 1771, Valentine Haiiy, a Frenchman, saw a troupe of blind beggars performing tricks in the street. Touched by the spectacle, he determined to find some way to aid blind people, some way in which, if they could never see, they might at least learn to read. His method, a system of printing books with embossed letters, was developed and improved by Louis Braille. The code which bears his name is an alphabet in which the letters are represented by raised dots, differing...