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This criticism is not meant to show that the book is valueless. On the contrary, anything written by such as observer should be considered seriously, especially when comparisons are made with the conditions in the Tsarist regime under which she also lived. Her intimate knowledge with her subject and the skillful way in which the facts are set forth demand recognition but it should be remembered that the author is used to a different mode of living and is somewhat too old to adapt her ways to that of a new system. She undoubtedly presents the facts faithfully. Our only...
...sold as sopranos, not only for the choruses in theatres, but also, strange to state, for the choirs of the Catholic churches of Italy, where their unnatural voices were highly prized, and found ready sale. Those castrati whose voices did not attain merchantable pitch and tone, became useless and valueless commodities in Italy, and they were shamelessly sold into slavery by the so-called civilized and Christian Italians to serve as eunuchs in the harems of the Infidels of Northern Africa and Turkey. Following Pope Leo's comparatively recent ban upon the use of castrati in the choirs...
...news for me. It means another barrage of letters from every Tom, Dick & Harry who finds a hunk of rotten fish anywhere along the Atlantic Coast." Last big U. S. find of "ambergris" was by poverty-stricken residents of Bolinas Beach, Calif. (TIME, March 19). Their treasure proved valueless. So do most of the substances-usually soap, wax, paint, tallow, mud, wood, coke, clinkers, decayed fish-with which wild-eyed people rush to chemical laboratories to learn whether they have found the sperm whale secretion which is used as a base for expensive perfumes. No such delusion had small, apple...
...stock oratory. What is of vital importance in the early stages of such an experiment is that the topics be wisely chosen, with especial regard to their timeliness and general appeal. For this reason, the first subject, Resolved, That the New England States secede from the Union, is valueless, an utter waste of time to all concerned. It is decidedly to the interest of both speakers and listeners that in the future fields of greater moment be explored, for only thus will the Union debates draw more than limited attention...
...been conferring with onetime Chancellor Otto Ender about the restoration of Habsburg properties confiscated during revolution. Last week their plans were well under way. To Otto, as head of the house, will go Habsburg jewels and plate, Habsburg stockholdings, most of which have been made valueless by Depression. But the treasure which is to make him rank with Mellon is Vienna's famed Kunsthistorisches (Art History) Museum, the Louvre of Vienna...