Word: tidbits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...punch of most modern music is in the tickets. Exception: Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky. He is always "good box-office." Manhattan's League of Composers, with Stravinsky's half-hour ballet, Les Noces, on the program (first U. S. production), preceded only by a 17th Century academic tidbit, last week drew a $25,000 audience to the Metropolitan Opera House, the smartest audience since the opening of the opera season last autumn...
...when one has teams one has percentages, and when one has percentages, one has championships. After that it is but a short step to the intercollegiate contest in touch football, which first reared its irregular-shaped head last year. Harvard's defeat of Brown at that time came as tidbit for those who prefer the deft to the desperate in sport, and who think that a lateral followed by a snap pass into the flat zone is a more beautiful thing than the temporary ataxia of the left side of the opposing line...
Mischa Elman, tycoon among violinists, landed from the Paris, last week, and flung to U. S. newshawks a tidbit: "The Philharmonic of New York, the Philadelphia Symphony and the Boston Symphony are far superior to any European symphonies except the Amsterdam Symphony, which is conducted by Herr Josef Mengelberg...
...Cathedral, the moving picture men wanted Walker to feed the pigeons, since pigeons show up so well in a film, and the Mayor obliged, although pigeon feeding wasn't his home specialty." Slyly wrote the editors, fearing that gum-chewers might miss the delicate wit of this tidbit: "Our mischievous correspondent's inference seems too obvious for pointing." Over their rude insinuation against the Mayor of the largest U. S. city, they put an almost libelous tag: "THERE MAY BE A CACKLE IN THIS...
...auditing department went by train from Detroit to Boston last week, bearing as courier the balance sheet of his company's 1926 business. At Boston he paid the Massachusetts Commissioner of Corporations (Henry F. Long) $10* as a filing fee and the report became the tidbit of public prattle. The annual statement, composed of a few hundred arabic numerals, naturally told nothing of the internal affairs of the Ford Motor Co. President Edsel B. Ford and his father and mother still make that their private business. They own all the outstanding shares-172,645, of the company...