Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some twelve years ago, called it La Rondine (The Swallow) and gave it to Giacomo Puccini. Puccini, himself light-minded at the time, applied a handful of tunes, spliced them in his own skillful way and the result was a "lyric comedy in three acts" that had an indifferent sort of premiere at Monte Carlo in 1917. Last week and by courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera Company it was given its first performance...
...opening day of Mr. Moore's ownership. Said he at the top of the editorial page: "O, how full of briers is this working-day world!" Readers of the Mirror were offered $5 apiece for published letters answering the question: "If YOU were publishing the MIRROR, what sort of newspaper would you produce to meet your tastes and interests...
...Advocate editor once said to a candidate: "You have imitated the Sherwood Anderson stuff, and quite successfully, too. But we won't want that sort of thing. It's too casy to write." In substance this is what Mr. Chase has too easy to write." In substance this is what Mr. Chase has to say about Anderson. This is a critical study of a man who wrote his first novel at forty, leaving the swivel chair of presidency in an Elyria, Ohio, paint factory to build himself a new life of meaning...
...farmers have some sort of grudge against him, over wheat...
...from now until the date of the convention. Hoover, the amateur in politics, is pretty generally forgotten. Hoover, the radical, no longer troubles the bond salesman's slumber. Hoover, the British patriot, we shall have with us whenever Senator Reed is on the scene. Discount these four Hoovers. What sort of a Hoover have we left...