Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wondering whether Secretary Kellogg has become so infected with the Gilbert and Sullivan fever that is now sweeping the country that he is going to stage an American version of the Pirates of Penzance on the little State of Nicaragua...
...reading this statement, sniffed, spat, quoted a statement, issued to the press under similar circumstances by Mr. Tunney's predecessor, John L. Sullivan. "I'll fight any - of a - with two fists, any place, any time, for a good cigar. . . . All the training I need is a haircut and a shave...
Thus warbled the muse of Gilbert & Sullivan in the great Gladstonian days of Liberalism.* But Fate, snickering, was even then implanting a new virus, "Laboritis," in the babes. Two infants, born to Conservative parents at the close of the Gladstonian era, grew up to political manhood, and last week vitally vexed their sires...
...That meant nothing. But it is significant that two rising young politicians like Oliver and Oswald have decided that their chance for a career lies among Laborites. A generation ago they would have turned Liberal. Now that the Liberal party has dwindled to a nothing, the verse of Gilbert & Sullivan must be re-written Today the politicians who matt in England are either "LaborITE or "Con-ser-va-TIVE...
People who lack music often complain that music lacks humor. Such people never grasp witty music, the intentioned epigrams of Ravel and Scriabine, of that deft and revered knight, Sir Arthur Sullivan. They can understand performers who make fun of serious music, burlesquing well-known classics, but how performers can, without irreverence, have fun with music these complainers cannot see. Few such gentry were in the Cleveland audience which last week heard a drunken Russian cab driver conduct the Volga boat-song. Nicolai Sokolov, Cleveland Orchestra conductor, famed interpreter of the Russians, had just directed his orchestra through...