Word: texts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more cash. Four years ago they signed not a secret but a very discreet treaty which became operative last year, establishing The International Wine Bureau, in Paris. Although the treaty was duly deposited with the League of Nations, it has never been officially printed. But perhaps its quasi-secret text came last summer under the eye of John Davison Rockefeller III, undergraduate grandson of John D. Rockefeller I, who worked during vacation as an information clerk at the Secretariat of the League of Nations (TIME, July 16), peered into many a document, and returned in September to Princeton-where even...
...Story. Hugo von Hofmannsthal* did the text for Strauss' Helen and laid the scene in Egypt. Helen and Menelaus are headed home. Troy has fallen. Hector and Achilles are dead. So is the graceful Paris, and by the same curved sword Helen too must die as an atonement to the Greeks. A sorceress learned all this from Muschel, a psychic shell which reported in a bold contralto a vision of Menelaus stealing hugger-mugger into the ship's hold, knife ready. Aithra, the sorceress, had strange powers. Just then she managed a mighty storm to stay the murderer...
...however, take issue with Hooverizer Hughes on the subject of platform etiquette. He conserved radio time by hushing the gallery orators and plunging straight into Prohibition. His text was Hooverizer Hughes' remark, a few days prior in Missouri, about the Prohibition issue being a "sham battle...
Typographers noted that Britannia is printed from slightly smeary type on thin gloss paper, the text interspersed with small photographs and cartoons (a few large) and the price six pence...
...that this Machiavelli, played by Henry Hull, written by one Lemist Esler (Yale Drama School product), and directed by William A. Brady Jr., was not, as history has imagined him, a murderous medieval wardheeler but on the contrary, a single-hearted patriot whose love-life was unfortunate. An overwritten text and an overdressed cast somehow made it seem improbable, uninteresting...