Word: ser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Noel Morris, 24, direct descendant of the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, son of Dave Hennen Morris, Manhattan barrister & corporation official; by suicide; in Manhattan. Earlier in the same evening Son Morris had heard Tannhaüser at the Metropolitan, had written in his diary: "Tannhaüser wasn't brave enough to stick it out, but I have the courage to do it." It was recalled that 48 years ago, in Hanover, Germany, 16-year-old Francis Morris, uncle of Noel Morris, shot himself after hearing the opera Traviata...
Tosca, Lohengrin, Cavelleria, Walkure followed the first season. Rosenkavalier, Thaïs, Tannhaüser, Fedora, Jenufa, Jewels of the Madonna, Turandot, Violanta, Carmen have been added since. Tosca and its like have brought her most fame. All the world knows now that she sings the Vissi d'arte lying flat on the stage, that she rolls down the church steps in Cavalleria, dies in most horrible agony in Carmen and Fedora, has a dozen devices for making opera exciting. Artistically she has done better with Walküre, Rosenkavalier, Lohengrin, Tannhaüser. Few having seen will forget...
...tariff schedule of 1,200 items was announced by its drafter, M. Daniel Ser-ruys, Permanent Chief of the Ministry of Commerce. His schedule is primarily designed to win farmer votes at the spring election. It sharply reduces the duties on farm tractors, doubles or triples those on many foodstuffs, and abolishes the duty on U. S. wheat seed, now popular in France. Sugar, from the U. S., which France has not heretofore imported, should flow in if the bill becomes law, for it would reduce the duty on sugar from 290 francs per 100 kilos to 100 francs...
...else a little Con-ser-va-TIVE...
...decided that their chance for a career lies among Laborites. A generation ago they would have turned Liberal. Now that the Liberal party has dwindled to a nothing, the verse of Gilbert & Sullivan must be re-written Today the politicians who matt in England are either "LaborITE or "Con-ser-va-TIVE...