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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brings to this part. As a simple-hearted drummer, he has his tribulations imitating the mighty Johann, but as a lover her cannot be impugned. The rest of the players are just about as good. And they can't help pleasing, set as they are in an unbroken spell of rapturous melody...
...written a play, that, with some few changes in the denomination of the money mentioned, might as well have been set in a good second-rate apartment hotel on Park Avenue. In this sense, indeed, it is a universal work, and while he should have been casting the spell of poverty and misery, he lets his love of dialogue run away from him, and the momentary humor of back talk of somewhat Chick Salian hue masks the enduring tragedy of the problem under discussion...
Thus begins one of the most famed passages in English prose. Its author though posterity does not seem to think he knew how to spell his own name was one of the most brilliant figures of his brilliant day. Sir Walter Raleigh, whom his latest biographer calls "the last of the Elizabethans," spelled his name three different ways (Rawleyghe, Rauley, Ralegh) but never signed himself Raleigh. Biographer Thompson lists 68 different spellings used by his contemporaries. The Spaniards, to whom Raleigh was Public Enemy No. 1, called him various guttural equivalents, such as "Guatteral." However they spelled Raleigh...
...dignified quiet and semi-obscurity in which it has been thriving, the Classical Club stalks majestically to the center of the stage with mask in place and haughty eye fixed on a spell bound audience. In these happy days of celebration the voice that was the voice of Rome sounds a proper and pleasing note, and in presenting Mostellaria sincerely and accurately the present pays fitting tribute to the past which has given it so much...
...representative of several Western utilities who were trying to balk the Public Utility Act. He spied a comfortable little house on 38th Street in Georgetown, promptly rented it. Disliking solitude, he "thought it would be nice for some of the boys to live with me during the hot spell." Six Representatives moved in with Lobbyist Smith: Kentucky's Cary, Idaho's Clark, Ohio's Fiesinger, Nevada's Scrugham, New Jersey's Sutphin, Indiana's Pettengill. Lobbyist Smith never told "the boys" of his work, because "several of them knew." On the piazza of their...