Word: ts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political pow-wow on the night before election to "bring out the vote," with ts sputtering red fires and Roman candles, its brass bands, its raucous boys beating garbage cans, its stout old men parading with signs hitched crazily to curtain rods, was once a fundamental U. S. institution. Now only Tammany Hall and lower Manhattan indulge in it heavily...
...have got to putting adv'ts in the front of TIME. Hurrah I Congratulations! I've been reading TIME since the first. I take pride as it has grown up. You deserve all success...
...when we speak of Christ they suppose we mean a listless, effeminate, oriental ascetic, or else the tyrannical Son of an imperious Father, sent to enforce His laws on an invaded and conquered country. And they think that we mean by religion a daily dozen of don'ts. And they think we mean by salvation the collecting of a spiritual insurance policy, plus a snobbish disdain for the uninsured ninety-and-nine: in the words of the song, 'The bells of hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling...
...Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, Carl Maria Friedrich Ernest von Weber's Der Freischüts was subjected to a revival. This opera, first produced in 1821, is perhaps the ultimate word in heavy German Romanticism. It is a tale of love, of shooting, of dense, dismal forests, of magic, witchcraft, enchantment, satanic spells and supernatural apparitions, ghastly, eerie, gruesome, horrible. But its moral tone is pure and lovely...
...Free bullets," according to legend, are Frelkugeln, subservient to the marksman's will, destined to hit without fail whatever object he wishes. The seventh and last bullet, however, is at the "absolute disposal of the Devil himself." Marksmen who employed Frelkugeln were known as Freischüts...