Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...able to make my living like the rest of you. You might say that I am a self-made...
...only the Chicago Company recognizes the value of opera in English (TIME, Oct. 4). The Met- ropolitan has scheduled The King's Henchman for March. So thoroughly English is it, say notices, that not a word of the lyrics but is derived directly from the Saxon tongue. The poet: Edna St. Vincent Millay, precocious young lady of Vassar, who published Renascence the same year she received...
Walter Sherman Gifford, President American Telephone & Telegraph Co., picked up a telephone receiver in the directors' room of his company, in Manhattan, heard a sharp feminine voice say, "Hello, London? Sir Evelyn." A sharper feminine voice replied, "London ready." Said he into his transmitter, "Good morning, Sir. This is Mr. Gifford in New York." Sir George Evelyn Pemberton Murray, Secretary of the General Postoffice of Great Britain, in London, replied, "Good morning, Mr. Gifford. Yes, I can hear you perfectly. Can you hear me?" Reassured, Sir Evelyn said, "Splendid!" Mr. Gifford read a formal statement. There had been...
...Czechoslovakian and his fourth bride, assured the other servants that she would "still consider the members of the household my equals." Charles Edy Monroe, quinquagenarian, Mr. Savin's adopted son, apologized to newsgatherers for having imbibed a few too many "holiday spirits"; vouchsafed "You can say there will be no honeymoon trip...
...report for 1925-26 President Lowell has emphasized a point which not many years ago would have been considered one of heresy but which now, due to change in conditions, is coming to hold an ever-increasing place in the minds of modern educators: that is to say, the restriction of education. "People engaged in public instruction are inclined to go too far in thinking that everyone should be encouraged to pursue his schooling to the furthest possible stage," writes the President, and thereby comments and takes a definite view on a problem which faces not only Harvard, but also...