Word: scrapping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Metropolitan Opera Company will revive his one and only opera, Fidelio, orchestras will feature his symphonies above all others. Thus everywhere musicians are scouring for relics of Beethoven. Last week in Europe a discovery was made, not an unfinished symphony to be treated and pieced together, nor a scrap of a sonata, cool, clear, deathless, but a part of a diary on an old memorandum sheet scratched by Beethoven, the querulous, untidy, unreasonable old man. It has to do with his servant problems...
...cook, intrigued, threw many a meat scrap. The eagle, unwary, flew farther and farther seaward?followed the Sulanierco 20 miles with ease, 10 more by settling down to earnest purposeful flapping, 10 more by resorting to tricks of volplaning and wind-catching, 10 more with every tendon of its great wings strained by the torturing, racking effort...
...impressions House formed of all the leaders of England, Germany and France; tells the methods of diplomacy which House used; tells a hundred incidents, such as how the imperturbable House lost his temper with the British Ambassador at Washington, how Von Bethmann-Hollweg explained his famous phrase, "a scrap of paper...
...time anybody buys anything): the 3,800,000,000-franc "taxes on business transactions." Such taxation is relatively easy to enforce, and of course sure to be extremely unpopular. Hence the virtual "impossibility" of getting it voted. The Cartel measure is a much tinkered proposal. It sets out to scrap M. Doumer's unpopular "indirect taxation"; and proposes instead that great pressure be applied to the collection of the present "direct taxes"-the notoriously "uncollectable" income tax, etc. Then it turns about and tries to levy "indirect taxes" on the rich- the securities, luxury and automobile taxes. Next...
...street leading into Pittsburgh, a bus carrying a troupe of strolling players who present Uncle Tom's Cabin was hurrying. Other cars were hurrying likewise. One was a handsome limousine, with a banker reclining within; one was a scrap-iron truck, driven by a Negro. It was this truck, passing three automobiles coming toward it, that accidentally rammed one of them. There was a tremendous crash. Five other cars piled into the wreckage before they could stop. Among them were the strolling players, the handsome limousine. Little Eva was badly shaken. The two bloodhounds yelped with pain and rage...