Word: instrumental
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...conceives of the theatre as a community product; is against the star system and the "long run" engagement system. He considers the theatre to be the most important of all agencies as an instrument of social expression. Ideas and their execution are his predominant interest...
...connections with the orchestra after a membership of one year or less. If its prime object is to give the players orchestral experience, why is it that practically only one programme was given the whole year? How was it that even then at many concerts some of the wind instrument solos were played by memory, by the concert-master? This state of affairs has turned away a sufficient number of men to form an efficient orchestra. Former members of the St. Louis and Philadelphia symphonies, Boston Opera, and the N. E. Conservatory of Music, and a leader of a Boston...
...Joseph E. Davies, Commissioner of Corporations in the Department of Commerce at Washington, while speaking last evening on "The Federal Trade Commission Act" outlined the leading featrues of this act and the Clayton Act. He defined the Trade Commission Act as an instrument for the distinction of monopoly and the regulation of competition...
...their differences according to reason and with-out fighting? He is blind indeed to modern thought who seeks to argue from the world of a century and more ago to the world of today. And he must be wilfully blind who would deny the existence of an ever-growing instrument of progress and civilization in the form of an international public opinion strong enough to settle all disputes, except those between nations armed to the teeth "in the hope of peace"--and in the expectation...
...military camp? Surely we have not reached that longed for state of civilization where national differences are settled without bloodshed Therefore, until such a time comes, should we not combat war clouds and war itself rather with a well sharpened weapon of self-preparedness than with some untried instrument of the future. G. B. BLAINE...