Word: suite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pops date back to the summer of 1885 when the Boston Symphony Orchestra was only four years old. There was then started the project of a supplementary series of concerts of popular character to suit the warmer season. They were modelled after the "Bilse" Concerts of Berlin, the formal rows of seats and tables were removed and tables were so installed so that one might sip wine or beer, munch a sandwich or smoke, while listening to a waltz of Strauss or a march of Sousa...
...long moment the Abbe Haegy hesitated. He owns several newspapers whose policy looks toward the eventual autonomy of Alsace. He had brought this suit against Le Journal of Paris for libelously aspersing his patriotism as an Alsatian. Now this French lawyer was wagging a hypnotic finger and demanding that the Abbe declare himself on the side of France, which now holds Alsace-Lorraine...
...mais oui!" shouted the Abbe Haegy suddenly, "I am French! VIVE!! VIVE LA FRANCE!! ... I withdraw my suit. . . . VIVE LA FRANCE!! . . . Look into my eyes, Monsieur, the eyes of a Frenchman, I swear it! VIVE LA FRANCE...
...worth of this wife to her husband. I award two shilling and sixpence [60c]." So said last week the Right Honorable Sir Gordon Hewart, Baron Hewart, Privy Councillor, member in good standing of the Beefsteak Club, and Lord Chief Justice of England. He was clearing up an undefended suit for divorce brought by the husband who asked ?200 ($970) damages from a man with whom the wife had committed adultery...
...chances of the defendants bringing suit against the individual policemen is very slight but if they decided on doing this after the close of the present trial they could file either a criminal or civil suit...