Word: sure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bratton of Waco, Texas, displays a great lack of information in his letter flaying Mr. Newton D. Baker which appears in your Dec. 5 issue of TIME. In his letter he says something about men that held commissions in the A. E. F. From his letter I am not sure that he knows that General Pershing and Vice President Dawes, held commissions in the A. E. F. They did, however, and I know they will be glad to tell him that his letter is absurd. Anyone that reads at all knows in what esteem these two men hold Mr. Baker...
...Hearst on the witness stand is a pleasant combination of Sam Weller and Titus Oakes. Not quite sure what the fuss is about, he is perfectly willing to tell the gentlemen all they wish to know. He doesn't like to think money has been paid to senators, but he has seen the documents. Of course his six million dollar holdings in Mexico have nothing to do with the case even if the series was planned when Calles menaced foreign capital last spring. Why, he is endangering his interests for the public's good. He realized there might be International...
...Philadelphia Civic Opera Company does little boasting and yet it attracts attention by reason of achievement. To be sure it is not a large organization and its support comes from public funds; its singers are not of international reputation and the players in the pit are borrowed from the Philadelphia Orchestra. But it has Alexander Smallens for conductor, W. Attmore Robinson for artistic director, men who have refused to be bound by a Verdi-Puccini repertoire. Last year they gave the U. S. premieres of De Falla's El Amor Brujo, of Erich Korngold's Der Ring des Polykrates...
...Rosenkavalier, his three operas known in the U. S.) when the afterglow of the Mightier Richard still blinded the young composers of the day, sending tunes from Tristan and Siegfried watered and warped into a thousand insignificant attempts. But Strauss even then could stand alone. He quoted, to be sure, from Rheingold but he quoted deliberately, when it suited him to have Wagner pop out of the back-ground of his libretto as the great forerunner of himself?the great Strauss. The story, as it was played, followed an old Dutch legend of a mid-summer festival with bonfires...
...rook, four pawns and the king. Capablanca refused to take the odd pawn at the price of exchanging rooks; Alekhine sent his king to destroy the Cuban's pawns and on the 82nd move, play stopped for the evening. The next night Capablanca did not, in the face of sure defeat, resume it. After the longest match in chess history?74 nights?there was a new champion...