Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prenaratory Commission on Armament Limitation which convened at Geneva last week has adjourned until Spring with the optimistic hope that it may be possible to hold the actual Disarmament Conference before the end of next year...
...spring of 1898 Maurice Grau, then General Manager of the Metropolitan, offered to let her sing in a Sunday night concert, but Farrar, 16, refused. A Sunday night concert was no occasion for a prima donna's debut. Instead Sidney Farrar sold his store in Melrose, borrowed, in addition, from a Mrs. Bertram Webb of Boston some $30,000* and the Farrars started for Europe?on a cattle boat...
Live Geese. In 1906 Farrar began her engagement with the Metropolitan Opera Company, where she stayed until the spring of 1922. During that time she made countless thrilling moments: in Butterfly and Bohéme, in which she has never been matched; in Romeo et Juliette, when she sang the chamber scene in bed, on her back; in Tosca, after she had lighted the candle coming from back stage, a burning white line from the tip of the flame to her beaded train; in Carmen and Zaza, less artistic, perhaps, just as exciting; in Die Königskinder, a radiant creature...
Because Mr. Eaton, a partner in the banking house of Otis & Co. of Cleveland, is heavily interested in the Inland Steel Co. and because the men who control Trumbull Steel also control the Central Alloy Steel Co., it is quite probable that by next spring both those companies will join the merger...
Directors of the Underwood Typewriter Co. last week asked their stockholders to meet Dec. 15 to approve merger with the Elliott-Fisher Co. (general office equipment) as the Underwood-Elliott-Fisher Co. The new corporation will match Remington Rand Inc. created last spring from Rand-Kardex (visible indexes), Baker-Vawter (filing cabinets) and Dalton Adding Machine (TIME, Feb. 28). It is possible that Underwood-Elliott-Fisher may round out their office equipment business by inducing Burroughs Adding Machines, International Business Machines and Yawman & Erbe (filing cabinets) to join them...