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Evidence of this fatal hat-wearing 22 years ago was handed to the Council, which forthwith decided that Count de Romanones' lands are confiscate. He can and undoubtedly will appeal to the Cabinet of Premier Azana, may win leniency because of his reputation for having opposed the Dictatorship of the late, hated General Primo de Rivera...
...Muhlberg's pronouncement, moreover, should find staunch advocates in quite another direction. Take, for example, the tutor who offered a tutee three fingers of Port and uncovered forthwith a chipper reaction to the intricacies of Lady Macbeth. The domain bounded by green glass and shiny labels has obviously been too long neglected by purveyors of modern education. But the thought occurs,--imagine rising with a hangover to greet a nine o'clock on the "Amenities of Gin," and an eleven o'clock laboratory exercise in "The Art of the little finger as applied to Chartreusel...
...well have been tinged with cynical amusement. The Metropolitan, hard-pressed for cash, had dropped her from its roster last spring (TIME, May 30). When the Musicians' Symphony came begging her to sing for their jobless cause, she agreed?on one condition, that she should sing Salome. Agreed; and forthwith Jeritza persuaded her friend Composer Strauss to prepare a special concert version for her. to waive his big royalty so that she. along with Baritone Nelson Eddy (Jochanaan) and Conductor Fritz Reiner, could give last week's performance for the jobless. Two hundred of them, organized as the Musicians' Symphony...
Many a non-Harvardite visited Hollis 15: John Barrymore, Christopher Morley, Alexander Woollcott, Henry Major Tomlinson. Henry Van Dyke, and the late Mrs. Fiske who received a famed note, "Minnie: Come to Copey's" and came forthwith. To young fellows "Copey" could be crushing. Two years ago saucy Tom Prideaux, editor of the Yale Literary Magazine, went up to look at Harvard. He visited "Copey," who stared at him and said: "Young man, I trust you are not planning to write any sketches." To an impertinent youth who suggested a headline to describe a fire : "Hollis a Holo caust...
Engineer Sprague was never a man for titles or labels. In 1889 he sold his Sprague Electric Railway & Motor Co. to Thomas Alva Edison. Forthwith his name was wiped from the rolling stock of 113 U. S. and foreign electric railways and from all items of construction, equipment and control, Edison's name being substituted. Later he sold his electric elevator company to Otis Elevator Co. Electric traction had many other fathers -including Siemens Co. in Germany, Stephen D. Field, Charles J. Van Depoele, Leo Daft-but Frank Julian Sprague first conceived the idea of a car moving freely...