Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabinet as a whole and more especially its Radical and Socialist members, added M. Poincaré, had never been consulted by him with respect to the bill, which had originated in the Foreign Ministry, where sole responsibility must rest. Thereupon, having blandished, explained and weaseled, the Prime Minister set his firm, pointed jaw and barked that he refused on his own responsibility to alter the bill, and critics could like or lump. There was of course, he smiled in conclusion, not the remotest thought of uniting church and state...
...decade or two some honest historian should set himself to telling the story of the development of music in the U. S., no name will figure more prominently than that of Walter Damrosch. Today's sophisticates will differ perhaps. They will remember the Strauss of Mengelberg, the Debussy of Koussevitsky, the Bach of Stokowski, the Wagner of Toscanini; and in the fervor of appreciation of individual performances they will have forgotten the millions whose musical sense has been awakened by Damrosch. They will have forgotten that it was Damrosch who first introduced to the U. S. such composers...
Lost. Lieutenant Commander H. C. MacDonald, D. S. C. (British) R. N. (retired), and a DeHaviland Gypsy Moth biplane; between Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, and the Eastern Hemisphere. Lieutenant Commander MacDonald set out at noon of Oct. 17 in a plane which had a cruising radius of 3,600 miles, which had a wing spread 20 feet shorter than Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis; which, like Lindbergh's plane, carried no radio apparatus, toted no pontoons, but had one 80-100 h. p. motor (Lindbergh's developed 200 h. p.). Unlike Lindbergh...
...Marion, Ill., Catholics, ever fraternal, were drawn closer to each other one day last week. "Did you hear what happened last night?" they asked each other. Some person or persons-the police could not say who-had set a bomb on the basement steps of the church. It went off, ripped the basement steps, shattered windows, scattered suspicion...
...Prometheus is Jeremy, rainmaker, who journeys to the rainmakers' convention. On the way the motorbus is stalled, and each passenger tells an inferior Canterbury tale (the title of the book is also from Chaucer). Distinction is reserved for the format of one tale: only those words are set down which Jeremy, dreaming of his love, happens to catch. Stripped of verbosity, the skeleton is a good model for conversational monologists...