Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speech of sapient logic and tart sarcasm Mr. MacDonald set forth Labor's view of the new Anglo-British "gentlemen's agreement" thus: "You can have either diplomacy with a cat well hidden in the bag and kept from mewing, or you can have a cat out of the bag and open to the inspection of everybody. This was not quite secret diplomacy, because Sir Austen Chamberlain (British Foreign Secretary) mewed and the newspapers mewed and are still mewing...
...tooth decayed into the jawbone and set up inflammation of the middle ear. . . . The King suffered intense pain with heroic stoicism...
Opera stars with all their trappings went last week from San Francisco to Los Angeles, set up shop there for a ten-day season. Tosca was the first opera with tall, blonde Maria Jeritza (Austrian Baroness von Popper) as the heckled heroine. Of a similar performance given a week earlier in San Francisco, Critic Pitts Sanborn of the New York Telegram wrote...
...finale of Act I was a hopeless bungle, due to an awkward set that forced the ecclesiastical procession into the body of the church, an amateur chorus, a green Scarpia (Lawrence Tibbett), the lack of an organ and the sluggish conducting of Merola. . . . Any unforeseen gap she [Jeritza] would fill with her bloodcurdling shrieks or her hollow whispers; she raved, raced and ranted all over the scene, she trembled like a palsied aspen leaf; betimes she played the accomplished acrobat, and, of course, she sang most of the 'Viss d'Arte' lying face downward, as if praying...
...formal church. Points well-given and taken are applauded not by silent acquiescent nods but by vigorous beating of palm on palm. When the meeting closes, people go out on Michigan Avenue. Some look up at the Chevrolet sign that gives the time every 60 seconds, and set their watches with nobler intentions...