Word: similars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consequence of this playful dissipation, the attitude of many of the people of Cincinnati today, I gather, toward those Elks is something similar to the position formally taken by Elkdom in convention assembled, toward the Bolsheviki. They would stand as "blocking the path of these invaders" to the freedom of their city in the future...
...President Calvin Coolidge and Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg both announced entire satisfaction during the week at the stand taken in Geneva by U. S. Chief Delegate Hugh S Gibson (TIME, June 27, et seq.). Similar expressions of content were heard at the British Foreign Office; and statesmen said with great candor at Washington and London that the U. S. and British delegations would renew their negotiations at Geneva on exactly the same basis of unyielding deadlock as before...
...busy public, that insists upon labeling every genius with a single superlative, likes to peg Beethoven as the "greatest orchestral composer," Schubert "the greatest song writer." Both were German contemporaries, both suffered cruel affliction, neither married. With that the similarity ends. Where Beethoven, the austere, cried out in the music of every man's sorrow, Schubert, the gentle, preferred a lyrical opiate. Where Beethoven, the Master, died amidst reverence in a thunderstorm, Schubert, the unknown, passed away in ignominy. It is said that they met on one occasion when Schubert, struggling against shyness, made bold to visit the leonine...
...Fountain of the Virgin, where once the Blessed Virgin traditionally drew water and washed the swaddling clothes of the Infant Savior, several women were engaged last week in similar tasks when the earthquake came. Although part of the ledge of the holy well crumbled and fell among them none were injured...
Divorce Suit Denied. Dudley Field Malone, 47, lawyer; by Doris Stevens Malone, writer, economist; in Paris. Said she: "Mr. Malone and I are good friends. We have denied similar rumors before and I deny them again...