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...Hughes is both a novelist and a scholar with a thirst for the sensational. (His sister-in-law, Mrs. Adella Prentiss Hughes is Tsarina of the Cleveland Orchestra.) Musicians know him for his able works: American Composers, Music Lovers' Cyclopedia. Rabid novel readers recall such things as: The Thirteenth Commandment, Souls for Sale. Then suddenly, last January (TIME, Jan. 25), Mr. Hughes bounded into the public eye as the interpreter of a new George Washington. Citizens were shocked by his speech before the Sons of the American Revolution in Washington, D. C. Senators flayed him. So Mr. Hughes...
...cool their raging Thirst, or quench their wanton Fire...
...most gallant career in his motherland's military and the French Foreign Legion. He has never visited the U. S., but will soon, ostensibly to sample the California climate but also to see with his own eyes large masses of the people whose literary a.nd cinematic blood-thirst has caused his last two books to sell into the hundreds of thousands. Big-game hunter, explorer, golfer, boxer, fencer, cricketer, he knew Jack London in the South Seas, Theodore Roosevelt in Africa...
...citizens of Chicago to support financially the efforts of the Company is greatly appreciated by those who are conducting the affairs of the Company." The present season being the last under the present guarantee arrangement, necessity was apparent for new guarantees aggregating at least $500,000 annually if the thirst of the Chicago operagoer is to continue to be slaked. Last year throughout certain sections of the country many a tired husband left the warmth of his hearth to nod at the performance of the "Chicago Civic Opera Company." Many a matron fondly listened to the strident tones of "leading...
...during 1925-26 was the increasing power?or at least, increased self-assertiveness? of the undergraduates. (Dr. Thwing had compared this phenomenon to the "student universities" of the Middle Ages, when a professor had to ask his pupils for permission to take a week-end off. Ah, there was thirst for knowledge in those days...