Word: score
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were two funeral services. The first, in the little church at Northeast Harbor, where for two score summers he had attended Sunday service, was for the family and for the hardy Maine fishermen whom he had so beautifully memorialized in "The Life of John Gilley." Under shadow of the mountains, within hearing of the surf, his son, his nephew, and his brother-in-law spoke quietly of his life and offered prayer which was more thanksgiving for his work, than mourning for his passing...
...what was my surprise when I saw that someone had arrived there before me--it was quite a thrill to see the long line of Yard Cops on their conservations with their arms crossed across their abdomens and that look which Abraham Lincoln has described so ably as "Four score and twenty years ago." They let me join. I joined...
...been turned into opera, La Cena Delle Beffe by Umberto Giordano, in which form, as presented by the Chicago Civic Opera Company, it presents a successful, gorgeous drama-spectacle. Only Satanic music could express the diabolism of the plot. The score provided, far from being profound as sin, is puerile as the theft of jam. It dares the singers to vault along treacherous arpeggios, skip over unsound scales, probe the depths of bass tones, just to prove that it can be done. It is done, and surprisingly well, too. Claudia Muzio, one of the world's great dramatic sopranos...
...Class A, the racquetmen defeated the strong St. Paul's School team at Concord, New Hampshire, by a 5-0 score. Although playing on strange courts, they showed considerable improvement over their last exhibition...
Team B, smarting under a 1-4 defeat by Newton Center, scored a complete victory over the University Club group. The 1930 then were conquered by a 1-4 score by the Union Boat Club. W. S. Hardie was the only Crimson victor...