Word: sure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Came last week to the Pole-peopled town of Oppeln in German Silesia, a traveling company of Polish opera singers. Tickets were scalped and the Opera house packed. Sure of tempestuous Polish applause, the beaming, bowing conductor achieved the overture, plunged into the first...
...insurrection which we?or rather which General Calles has just suppressed?," said President Emilio Portes Gil of Mexico last week, "will prove, I am sure, to have been highly beneficial to the country...
About a year ago, ten public-spirited Philadelphians commissioned a Hungarian artist named Karoly Fulop, who lives in Paris, to paint five great murals for the music room of the Philadelphia Free Library. They did not consult the library trustees. They felt sure that Artist Fulop would produce something unquestionably suitable...
...Notwithstanding the intelligent censorship which Chile has established over plays and cinemas, parents cannot be sure that their children will see a type of performance designed to improve their morals and character. The average modern drama not only lacks good taste and educational art entirely but generally depicts robberies, disorders and the baser passions. The Municipality of Santiago will present in our new Children's Theatre plays especially written for children only. There will be some free performances so that the children of the poor, as well as the wealthy, may enjoy this wholesome influence...
...Diegel of the U. S. was ahead. Sleek, droop-jowled Walter Hagen, British open champion and captain of the U. S. team, and Britain's cadaverous Captain George Duncan, had halved eight out of the first nine holes. Then Duncan had gone ahead to a five-hole lead. "Sure, I'll win. I always do," was the Hagen attitude. But dour George Duncan won, ten up and eight to go. Best medal scores (par was 71) : Diegel, 65, second day; Diegel and Espinosa 66, first day; Duncan, 69, second...