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Emphasizing the economic as well as the physical handicaps under which the Esquimaux exist, Sir Wilfred went on to explain many of the adverse features of native life. Among these he mentioned malnutrition, poorly constructed ships, poor markets for fur and fish catches, and the comparative lack of adequate medical facilities...
Nowadays the San Carlo master rarely travels with the performers, prefers to drop in on them when least expected. On one such occasion he arrived in New Orleans during a matinee, met the company harpist ambling along the streets. The player tried to explain that the opera was Rigoletto, that the score calls for no harp. But Gallo was not to be placated. He saw to it that for the Rigolettos thereafter the harpist went into the pit, played...
...more prominent humorists of last year is embarking on a legal career at the Law School. At one of his first classes, he was called upon to explain a case under discussion. It is said that he stumbled so badly that the professor felt called upon to ask him if he were prepared...
King to King. With most Italians feeling last week that evidently Britons do not understand how little Italy wants in Africa, their Little King sat down in his Quirinal Palace and wrote to King George, asking him to explain things in London? or so the British Reuters Agency reported. George V, having finished up his Scottish grouse shooting, announced that he would return to Buckingham Palace this week several days ahead of schedule. All his life a practical Navy man, His Majesty was far more alive than politicians like Squire Baldwin to the queer fact that big guns have...
...John was too ill with tuberculosis to work in the mine he loved. When Ellen saw the huge crowds that tramped miles to his funeral, she suddenly realized that her plain, impractical husband had been a great man, reflected with anguish, pride and bewilderment that husbands ought to explain things to their wives...