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...Italian would mean the ruin of Wagnerian opera at the Metropolitan. Gatti, too, had a reputation for keeping singers sternly under discipline. The singers at the Metropolitan, like most singers, loved discipline not at alL They knitted their brows and waited. The new manager stipulated in his contract that he would bring with him Arturo Toscanini, then already famous. This orchestra conductor enjoyed a well earned renown for handling singers without gloves...
...Neither do I," said Coach Slattery on being asked to verify the statement, which declared that Coach Slattery, after serving for four years as baseball coach at Harvard, was planning to resign that position for personal business reasons as soon as his four year contract has expired this spring...
...Moore declared that he intended to offer Coach Slattery a renewal contract on the same terms as those under which he has served in recent-years, and Coach Slattery stated that he intended to sign...
Eleanora Duse, " Bernhardt of Italy ": " As I sailed from France to fulfill a contract with Producer Morris Gest in New York, I explained my trip as a pecuniary necessity. Said I: ' I am literally trembling at the thought of the publicity I am bound to receive on my arrival. All my life I have perhaps been the only actress with a genuine horror of seeing my name in print. I have suffered so much...
Professor Persons first described the theory of recurring business cycles, on which the Harvard Economic Service is based. Perpetual change, he showed, is an inherent feature of modern industrial enterprise. Prices rise and fall; markets expand and contract; production increases and decreases; orders accumulate beyond capacity and then seem to vanish altogether...