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...also the year of the unpleasant 'Marconi scandal,' in which I had no part. The British Postoffice approved a tender of my British company to build stations for its use. Godfrey Isaacs, manager of both my British and American companies, advised his brother Rufus, then Attorney General, later Lord Reading, the Lord Chief Justice and Viceroy of India, to buy shares in the American company. Rufus Isaacs bought ?10,000 worth, soon selling ?1,000 to David Lloyd-George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer. The affair came to light. Mr. Lloyd-George was bitterly assailed for profiting privately...
...effective as Turandot, so glinty cold as to send the shivers down 4,000 spines as she shrilled her desire to avenge all men. Giacomo Lauri-Volpi was a loud, adequately heroic Calaf. But there were none of those sweet, curving melodies for either of them to sing, no tender suavities to linger over and fondle. Choruses here and there excelled the earlier Puccini's, but the score as a whole seemed thick, noisy, lacking in coherence, stretched this way and that to cover three acts for which there was insufficient substance. Not the old Puccini...
...Their parting was youthfully emotional, yet she took it easily, and he found himself almost happy to get away. All summer he mooned about her, seeing her in other girls, in trees, in vistas, even in the yellow wallpaper of his village home. He wrote her a long and tender letter, full of confidence in their love, and received no answer. He made futile journeys to the postoffice. Doubtless she was occupied at Moscow. He wrote more, and was slapped by silence. Into the void of Katya's silences came Alenka, peasant wench. But one hurried seance with...
...must to all men, Death came to Mrs. Annie Oakley ("Little Sureshot") Butler, 66, most marked markswoman in history, at Greenville, Ohio, after long illness. She had directed that they cremate her remains; bury her ashes in Darke County, Ohio, where she began handling firearms at a tender age to supply her widowed mother with game...
...quiet. All around her, upon the desert and upon her limbs, disposed in sleep, the moon bends its light, and a lion (come down from a hill colder and stonier than the desert) stands with a black shadow on its face, solitary, looking at the traveler with wild, tender eyes...