Word: greater
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this Verdi wrote songful dramatic music which 80 years ago had great success. Last week it was stamped by most listeners as pleasant, old-fashioned stuff significant only because it gives a hundred hints of the later, greater Verdi. Distinguishing feature of the performance: the sumptuous singing of Soprano Rosa Ponselle, prevented by a severe throat affection from appearing earlier in the season...
Michael meets Mary in the British Museum. She has been deserted by a bounder of a husband, is destitute, and consequently profits greatly by the loans which Michael persuades her to accept. Striving toward greater respectability than the law allows them, the two are married, thus laying themselves open to prosecution for bigamy. Of course the wayward husband eventually returns. In an attempt to blackmail Michael, who is by this time a prosperous novelist, the scoundrel's insolence leads to a scuffle and he falls dead of a heart attack. Still seeking the highest moral good, Michael and Mary...
...greater part of this narrative of an unadventurous but representative life is given in Grandma Brown's own words. Says her daughter-in-law: "Recording her story in her own pungent speech, I have hoped to catch and preserve for Grandmother Brown's descendants some of the flavor of her personality; her aspirations, her achievements, even her limitations; her innocent vanities; her lovable animosities; her patient endeavors...
This afternoon in Hemenway Gymnasium at 4 o'clock will be held a wrestling demonstration by the Harvard wrestling squad at which the referees, officials, and coaches of the colleges of Greater Boston will attend...
...proposal was first made some time ago at a meeting of the New England Intercollegiate Wrestling Association held at the H. A. A. At first it was proposed that the officials alone assemble to standardize the regulations for Greater Boston. Representatives of Harvard, M. I. T. Tufts, and Brown were present, and all agreed on the advantage of doing this. As an added step, Coach Gallagher of Harvard then suggested that in addition the coaches from these colleges be present, to avoid misunderstanding between coaches and referees at the meets...