Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilson's ideals have been adapted by nations only in so far as they coincided with the individual country's advantage. When the Austrian foreign minister was recently forced by local politicians to interfere with the tyrannical regime of Mussolini in Tyrol, the result was 11 Duce's biting speech in which he said that he was through with "words" and was ready to force the issue with "deeds...
...Mussolini's whole attitude in politics is operatic gesture," W. L. Langer '15, Assistant Professor and Tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics told a CRIMSON representative last night when asked about the premier's recent speech on foreign interference in Tyrol...
Among the most novel of these operas is Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio", a comedy with a romantic background interspersing speech with song. Two lovers and the Sultan are the Romantic personages, while the keeper of the harem, fat and drunken, and a sportive maid provide the humorous element. It has seldom been performed in this country. The first recorded performance was at Brooklyn in 1860, in Italian, under the title "Belmonte and Constanze". Two years later there was a performance in German at the German Opera House in New York.SELECTED TO SING ROLE OF LADY HARRIETT IN "MARTHA...
Since in the past certain fun-loving persons, yearning for the days "When pistols were fired up chimneys, when statues were painted, when free speech was exercised," have been in the habit of confining their firing, painting, and freely talking to one occasion per annum, the editors feel safe in assuring their readers of no further interruptions in their steady reading until about this time next year...
...While the student body at one time was boisterous and hard to handle, for some years they have been docile and amendable to University regulation The days when pistols were fired up chimneys, when statues were painted, when free speech was exercised, are now no more, thanks to the hearty co-operation of the Lampoon and to a less degree of the CRIMSON. We of this office are only human and sometimes wish that someone would play with a fire extinguisher or do something spectacular in order that ancient and long-standing statues might be put to use. We have...