Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that they are there. The quality of his playing depends largely upon whether or not he can find several of these select and sympathetic spirits in the audience, with whom he can get into telepathic rapport. Many practitioners of the public arts will tell you much the same thing, but dimly. Rubinstein illustrates his thesis with quite dramatic episodes...
...stands ready to give you the "lowdown" on just how the movies affect your growing family? what they like and dislike on the silver screen, what effect, if any, it has on their adolescent minds, their own pet actors and actresses?statistics 'n all." In fact about the only thing he hasn't done to the unsuspecting high school pupils of 76 American cities and large towns is to lay them...
...than the majority of white fighters now in the ring. No one can deny that I've fought every one selected for me. I don't play the cabarets and I've never been in court on any charge, but what has it got me ? One thing you can be sure of. If I were champion tomorrow, I'd be just as unassuming and peaceful as I am now. I wouldn't turn out to be another Jack Johnson...
...long been something of an axiom among musicians that for outdoor concerts the band is the thing. It has been thought that the weaker voice of the orchestra, with its soft strings and woodwind, was lost in an open space. This idea is changing. The cause of the change is to be found in the improvement in sounding boards. An orchestra playing in front of and partly under a great, cavern-like sound deflector contrives to project its tone to the audience quite acceptably...
...best professions, far fewer ladies study voice than here, because in Italy some show of vocal promise is regarded as a more or less necessary prelude to vocal study. Not so here. With our sublime optimism and idealism, we transcend mere physical limitations. The lofty aspiration is the thing...