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Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom-louder and louder rumbled the big bass drum of Prosperity where they were beating it (TIME, Nov. 17) in Wall Street. The great bull days became a great bull week, the greatest in 20 years. In ten post-election days, 18,717,732 listed stock shares changed hands in the Big Bull Ring. Of these millions, over eleven and a half went in the week of Nov. 10, more than ever before save in the panicky May weeks of 1901. A total of 689 issues were dealt in-a new high for all time. Wall Street...
...this beating of the big bass-drum, this circus-holiday? How came the staid Exchange to lend all three rings to the revels, the gambles, of a performing bulls? For three reasons, "men said: The election of President Coolidge; the accompanying assurance that under his administration no legislation would be directed against the railroads ; the fact that Great Britain put off the corduroys of Socialism for the suave dinner-jacket of a Conservative ministry. These were the occurrences that made small investors fish stuffed stockings from behind stoves and rush to the curb with their coin; that made big investors...
Halibut, river herring, sea trout, striped bass, clams are all decreasing in numbers...
Nightly in the old Bowery Theatre, Manhattan, one may hear the eerie shiver of the Oriental cymbal, the monotonous turn-turn of the bass drum, the ultra-bitter sneer of the violin's E-string. This continues from 7 to 12 p. m., without interruption. It is Chinese music, the real article, just imported fresh from Canton. Every few days a new opera is presented, in Chinese, by Chinamen and Chinawomen artists and singers, for a Chinese audience and entirely in the Chinese manner. The following opera may be taken as typical...
...eccentricities. In countenance, he is grave; in dress and manner, he resembles a cosmopolitan man of business. Only his hands and eyes admit the implication that this business has to do with Art. He was born in Tver, in Northern Russia, and received his first employment as double bass in the Moscow Imperial Opera. He rose to become a conductor and toured Europe with his orchestra. Revolt he has always accepted; even Revolution, with red flags and black drums, did not stop his music. He gave concerts in deserted places, when it was so cold that the brass players...