Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hearst himself. IllJohn T. Adams, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, is opposed-tacitly if not overtly-to the World Court. Frank A. Munsey, newspaper magnate, is very openly and explicitly opposed to the World Court. Mr. Adams made a flying trip from Washington to New York, saw Mr. Munsey, hurried back to Washington. Only two people were the wiser for the trip. June 18 is the date of the Minnesota special primary which precedes the election of a successor to the late Senator Knute Nelson. The candidates at the primary include...
...such anti-democratic thing would be tolerated. They demanded that the opera boxes be turned over to the proletariat. This agitation produced a result that sounds very American. There was a bomb scare. The " authorities grew excited with fancies of bomb-throwing in the opera house, when the revolutionaries saw that the capitalists still had the boxes. Precautions were necessary. The officials ordered a force of soldiers to the opera house to search all who entered, and further gave forth the regulation that no one might go into the auditorium with a cloak or coat, since such were adapted...
When the angry crowd outside saw themselves thus shut out, they broke into a riot, with wild yells of " Down with the management!'' The noise sounded in the auditorium, but Toscannini, growing furious, relentlessly continued the performance. Several score of workmen who had contrived to get into the gallery, heard and heeded the protesting yells of their comrades outside. They grew indignant, and joined the chorus of exterior chorus. " Down with the management!" the howl from the galleries drowned the music. But such was the respect inspired by Toscannini that the disturbers in the theatre amplified their cries. "Down with...
Numerous Authors They Assemble at a Cinema Congress−and Talk At the International Congress of Motion Picture Arts (in Manhattan) one saw numerous authors, some serious, some gay. Here was Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, a serious stately lady, clad in gray and black. I was tempted to ask her where she obtained her information on Yale displayed in The Courage of the Commonplace; but didn't quite dare. W. B. Maxwell, whose The Day's Journey is a really fine recent English novel, was the British delegate. He is tall, dignified, with a much lined face that...
Hugh Walpole advanced jovially into the office last week, looking a trifle thinner than when I last saw him. He had returned from delivering 180 lectures; had purchased a large collection of etchings with the proceeds from them, thus indulging his latest hobby. He acted for all the world like a schoolboy who has just started for his summer vacation, and affirmed that he was enjoying himself. He will not return to England until the end of June. Meanwhile, the author of Fortitude, The Cathedral, Jeremy, et cetera, et cetera, will en joy himself some more...