Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these was voiced last week by George J. Houtain, counsel for the Theatrical Stock Managers Association. Declaring in a letter to the American Federation of Musicians that prohibitive union wages and regulations had made music scarce in stock productions, he added: "If a phonograph needed operating behind scenes, you wouldn't allow the manager or one of the company to turn it on or off. . . . It had to be done by a union musician at a full week's wage, and he wasn't allowed to play in the orchestra either...
...beside the immortals of former years. George, Trevor, a recognized critic writing for the New York Sun, compares the Sophomore quartet to the 1929 edition of the Notre Dame horsemen and adds that while football history is studded with backfields as good or better than the "Four Furies" ... "we wouldn't trade Harvard's sophomore quartet for the present Notre Dame array. Mays is a shiftier carrier than Elder and almost as fleet in football clothes...
...staked my fortune on the outcome of my predictions today. Maybe you didn't know there was a Mrs. Huey; well strictly speaking you are right; really it is the Misses Huey, which is only an old Chinese way of saying that I like variety. But then I wouldn't expect my new countrymen to catch on to oriental customs yet so I will leave a detailed discussion of that subject until a later date...
...reduce the tenure of service of Methodist Bishops from life to four years. Cried Mr. Anthony: "The church occasionally elects a misfit as a Bishop. Without mentioning any names I'll say we have one now. If he isn't a straight out old-fashioned gambler, I wouldn't know one if I met him on the road labeled with box car letters...
...feel certain," he said, "that this Harvard team has one great game in its system, and it wouldn't surprise me to find that it can rise twice to the heights. If it has only one really great game, I hope that it will come against Yale, but you can rest assured that the line and the backs will do a fine job against Michigan...