Word: talked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tuesday evening Alexander Woolcott, former New York World dramatic critic, will give a talk at the Union on the current theatrical season in New York...
...Parallel history of similar emergencies is what is needed", said Lincoln Steffens, journalist, author, student of revolutions, in a talk before members of the Liberal Club and their guests last night. "A knowledge of what has gone before under similar circumstances aids individuals in avoiding past mistakes...
Evidently a man could be a hero at home so long as he did not leave home. There was, of course, talk that Tammany Hall had "laid down" on the man that tried to outgrow it. But no such talk came from the man. He knew that people think differently about their Governor and their President; that New York City's new registration was huge; that politics is not an exact science...
...early as 1914 there was talk of Jeritza's coming to the U. S. Otto Kahn had heard her in Europe. So had Mr. Gatti. But then came the War. Vienna stayed German and the Metropolitan Opera went Italian. Jeritza was married-to Baron Leopold Popper de Podraghy,* one of the wealthiest industrialists of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, turned soldier for his Emperor. She herself sang at the front, worked in a hospital. Not until the fall of 1921 did she come to the Metropolitan...
...table listening half-hypnotized to Siegmund's narrative; the silver radiance of her as Ocatavian bringing in the rose; the iridescent tenderness of her Elsa; the white compassion of her Elizabeth. Critics carp at vocal imperfections, occasional explosive performances, but in the final reckoning they pale like small talk before the fact that operatic puppets are given life, that people who had hitherto small patience with "grand" opera go to Jeritza, pay top prices, listen and watch intently and go again...