Word: solomon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Diamond men reviewing these statistics last week had every reason to be well pleased. Of these none should have been more so than Solomon ("Solly") Barnato Joel, ringleader and probably richest of the tycoons who form the Diamond Syndicate which, as everyone knows, controls the price and production of almost all the world's diamonds. But though Solly Joel may well have rejoiced in his 1929 profits he could not have forgotten that less than a month ago his Diamond Syndicate was ordered by the British Government to pay ?350,000 to a suing company. No matter how rich...
...program employed on the trip as announced by Manager J. R. Graham '30, will be partly secular and partly religious. It will include the following selections: "Jerusalem" by Parry, "Justorum Animae" by Byrd, "Marching" by Brahms, Three pictures from "The Tower of Babel", "May No Rash. In-truder" from "Solomon" by Handel, Choruses from "Ruddigore" by Sullivan, "Dirge for Two Veterans" by Holst, "Fireflies"--a Russian folk song, "Summer Evening" by Finrish
Like its predecessor, this book is a collection of Bible stories told in darkey dialect, with darkey psychology, darkey embellishments and modernizations. Sly, humorous, kindly, they are reminiscent of the late great Joel Chandler Harris's tales of Uncle Remus. A sample: "So Solomon started kingin' up and down de road, a-bowin' and tippin' his crown to de ladies and makin' riddles at de men folks, and he was a mighty good king...
...Switzerland in 1828, emigrating to the U. S. 19 years later. In Philadelphia, No. i Guggenheim vended various things, but first began making large profits through shoe-polish and glue. In 1872 he entered the embroidery business, taking into the firm his four eldest (of seven) sons: Daniel, Murry, Solomon, and Simon...
...Glee Club singers and the Choral Society will open the program with three choruses by George Frederick Handel--"The Heart That's Contented" from "Admetus", "May No Rash Intruder" from "Solomon", and "The Foolish Lover Squanders" from "Deidamia...