Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commander Breck again emphasized that he was not a sentimentalist, and that he had shot more moose than any other man. "When I was not at sea, I lived in the woods. I used to use traps myself, and only slowly did I realize what a cruel thing I was doing. I made a discovery. It is was not that a device which catches a beast by the leg and holds it for hours and often days was cruel and wrong; that has been known for centuries. My discovery was that the bulk of this atrocity was so enormous...
...Britain, the party which will come into government at the next elections will be more inclined towards disarmament," Mr. Smith predicted. "But they should not trust naval experts to settle the question. The stupidest thing done at the Coolidge conference was the trust which was put in the naval experts. Quarrels on party; quarrels on guns, on cruisers,--why, what else is to be expected of naval experts anyway? The naval expert is paid to look after his navy. When he does not do that, he deserves the go-by. What does he know about limitation and reduction of armaments...
...breakfast, practices for three hours, has lunch, plays outdoors all the afternoon, has dinner and goes to bed at seven. Ask him what he likes best and his answer will be Bach and Beethoven and Handel and Haydn and Mozart and San Francisco and ice-cream sodas (the first thing he asked for after his Manhattan concert), handball, climbing rocks, chess, the new Cadillacs, St. Bernard dogs and giving concerts. Some weeks ago Walter Damrosch cautioned him gravely against playing the Beethoven Concerto with the New York Symphony and Yehudi said "Why not? I only want to have some...
...harder at work than when classes are in operation," that the Library is more used, and that the experiment promises to be a success when the marks come through on the examined results. The project interests us exceedingly and we hope that Harvard, finding it worth making a regular thing, may be followed by other colleges. Something of the sort might well be tried at Yale...
...many other factors that help to draw large audiences. For instance it is remarkable what a difference an actor's makeup will create. You, know that negro who sang in the performance last week, with a high silk hat and tramp's clothing? Well, he didn't represent any thing particularly in those clothes, yet he got away big. Now they've been trying to get him to change his costume for two years, and yet they can't find any other clothing in which he'll be a success. One night we had him appear in a tuxedo...