Word: tre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some weeks ago the Metropolitan Opera Company entertained a composer of an opera in its repertory. Italo Montemezzi, "honored guest" at a gala performance of his own L'Amore dei Tre Re, was crowned on the stage with a wreath. Now a similar event has taken place. Max Schillings, upon visiting America, was a guest at a performance of his own Mona Lisa, which was given last year for the first time in American (TIME, May 19). Schillings was not crowned with a wreath. He does not, indeed, deserve a wreath; his opera is not half as good...
...that on demand, and not on limited supply, can be found the panacea for which the laboring classes search. The significance of this is apparent, and Mr. Strachey brings it out in discussing Labor as a partner of industry; for, as demand is the raison d'être of wealth derived through the medium of Labor, it should govern Labor's attitude to employers, to strikes and to itself. In other words, to borrow Mr. Strachey's simile, if Labor wants a larger share of the cake, a larger cake must be made and a larger cake...
Last week the report of his trial stated that the prosecuting attorney demanded the maximum penalty. Maître Hesse, defending Parker, described the American Express Co. as " an enormously rich concern which has made much money exploiting people on French soil?a concern which has made millions in exchange speculation at the expense of the franc, and does not sufficiently watch its employes." He ended by saying that the concern " has too much money anyhow...
...Coup de Maître...
...Pacific Treaty is more important. Its ratification brings to a close the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of 1911 and can be regarded as a coup de maître of U. S. diplomacy. Its greatest significance is that in the possibility of an American-Japanese war the hands of Great Britain are left untied...