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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Crown Prince came back to the Land of the Rising Sun, official orders prescribed that full reverence be accorded to him, which meant there must be absolutely no noise. The sight of a white figure stepping from the launch, which landed the prince, was too much for his idolizing people. Kotaishi denka Banzai! (10,000 years to the Crown Prince!) rent the air from tens of thousands of throats, thundered over the waters and reverberated along the hills and down the streets-the Prince, their Prince, had come home...
...with various progressive candidates. Mr. Couzens gained favor and secured the votes of Borah, Gooding, Norbeck, Jones. Mr. Cummins also voted (for the first time) for Mr. Couzens, the object being to prevent a sudden shift of the insurgents from naming Smith. With a fifth day of balloting in sight the 'deadlock continued...
...rise to the remotest inkling of the grandeurs of the original. Especially is this true of the Shakesperian plays made into operas. Both librettos and music are sad mirrorings. Verdi's Otello and Falstaff, with their scholarly librettos by Boito are the only operatic compositions that ascend within sight of Shakespeare. They are not faithful to the poet in spirit-they sober down his great madness, adding to it a classical and austere elegance of form...
...fact that the great number of substitutions enabled the University stick-men to work harder while they were on the ice, this difference in reserves was not sufficient to account for the far greater speed which the Harvard men flashed on all occasions. It was a common sight for the Crimson forwards to walk right away from any B. U. man who attempted to check them, while it was equally the rule for an opposing player who had broken loose towards the goal to be overhauled from behind by one of the University skaters...
...sufficing label . . . the missionaries' supporters at home are firm believers in prohibition, but the missionaries themselves know that the liquor traffic in the Ottoman Empire has been in the hands of native and Western Christians. . . . The city of Islam has been under Christians' control for four years and the sight of it has been such a rebuke as Christendom has not suffered since the great Moslem reformation first purged the decadent Eastern Christendom of the Middle Ages. ... I believe that American Protestantism and British Nonconformism have their greatest task still ahead of them and that that task is nearer home...