Word: tre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...raison d'�tre of the book is the author, for R. F. Foster is a unique character. Almost what Hoyle* was to the 18th century, Mr. Foster is to the 20th (particularly within the radius of Manhattan newspapers). He was 40 years old when he became "card editor of the New York Sun. Soon famed as authority on auction bridge, his production of literature on cards within the last 20 years has been enormous. The "rule of eleven owes its origin to him. Men by the thousand and women by the ten thousand have applied themselves to study...
...German Army in the early eighties?;-of what Roosevelt once said of him*?of the fact that his son, Roger Wolff Kahn, has organized a very successful jazz orchestra?of the respectful way in which the press is beginning to call him "America's Foremost Patron of tre Arts." Or he might have thought, not without satisfaction, of the banking career whose compact pattern knits these scattered salients. Formerly cashier in a bank in Carlsruhe, Germany, later Vice President of a German bank in London, he came to the U.S. during the panic of 1893, took...
Sale of Arms. The raison d'être of the Conference was, as implied by its title, to control the private manufacture of, and the traffic in, armaments of all kinds. How was it to be done? Discussion narrowed the question down to a maxim that non-arms-producing States should not be placed at the mercy of arms-producing nations; or, inversely, nonproducers would be made producers. It followed that the sovereignties of the participating States should in no sense be infringed...
...would be running for the next while between Chicago and a place called Ravinia, 21 miles north. Why anyone should want to be going to Ravinia puzzled a number of dolts, until they read how one Louis Eckstein was presenting operas there. The first was L'Amore dei Tre Re, with Martinelli, Bori and Virgilio Lazzari, "the best basso that has hung in Paris for 30 years...
...Paris, Mary Garden, amid scenes of "gratifying and extraordinary enthusiasm," made her first appearance there in seven years, sang Fiora in L'slinore dei Tre Re with a voice considerably less shrill, less honed, than in her last U. S. performances. Her acting was passionate. A huge audience of French and U. S. citizens, with a sprinkling of Italians, paid 200 francs ($10.00) for their seats-the highest price ever asked for an operatic performance in Paris. ¶The Paris Grand Opera Company, it is rumored, will give for the first time in more than 30 years Rossini...