Word: staying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What I know about the Philippine Islands has been gathered from residence therein during 20-odd years, covering most of the time from the American occupation up until the present year, and I have noticed that the conclusions of those from "Universities Afloat" who made a "threeday stay," and various biased politicians from the days of William Jennings Bryan down to more recent afflictions, who have stayed anywhere from three days to three weeks, are much more emphatic and cover more territory than those who have struggled with the problem in all its bewildering phases for 29 years...
Says he in his new book: "Summing up the entire matter, we should say that installment selling, like every new institution, is subject to the perils of novelty. It has engendered new devices and has created a new technique, but it has undoubtedly come to stay. Some abuses and perils which it were short-sighted to deny have crept in. What is needed is to apply to each particular case some of the results of the analysis which we have attempted to present. As the years roll by, experience will teach us to what classes of commodities and to what...
...Swanee River" and "The Spirit of the Air," words and music by herself, dedicated to Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. "L'amour est une oiseau rebelle. . . ." The customers at the Palace sat alert for the "Habanera" of the World's Greatest Carmen, but the high comb would not stay in the thin bobbed hair, and the flaming shawl was strangely dull. True there was a hint of the old gestures, the old fire, but the Palace audience could not remember, saved their applause for Naughton & Gold, funny indeed, for the triple-tonguing of Trumpeter Rolfe and his slapstick jazz...
Season's Plans. For twelve and a half weeks the Chicago Opera will stay at home, give their five regular subscription series Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday evenings and Saturday matinees, a new series of twelve Sunday matinees and six or seven Friday night performances. No new operas have been announced, but there will be several revivals: La Navarraise (Rosa Raisa), Monna Vanna and Sapho (Mary Garden), Linda di Chamounix (Toti Dal Monte and Tito Schipa), Loreley (Claudia Muzio). New singers are Eleanor Elderkin, Olga Kargau, Leone Kruse, Lucille Meusel, Delia Samoiloff, sopranos; Elinor Mario, contralto; John Sample, tenor; Eugenic...
...speaker, voiced the opinion that theatregoers are becoming more receptive to good drama at the present time "What the public wants now," he said, "is enormous action. This is largely the reason for the disinclination of the dramatic public to attend the theatre of literary drama; they prefer to stay at home and read. Further proof of the love of action is the enormous popularity of motion pictures...