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Lessons from Lionel. In the year of its founding, the guild had 1,239 members. Today it has a membership of 55,000-predominantly female-in all the states and 51 foreign countries. Many a present-day Opera Guilder never steps inside the Met, but the membership is bound together by its ritualistic devotion to the Met's Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts and by the guild magazine, Opera News, which combines first-rate scholarship with the kind of prompter's box chitchat that opera fans feed on. With dues at $6 and up, the guild has raised...
...hearing aid and spectacles that the old folks' home had given him, Bally told reporters his eerie story. Back in 1910, Bally, a 15-year-old orphan, was shipped off to Farmer Kolkman's place to work for a bed in the attic and 2.50 guilders (65?) a week. In those days the guilder went far, and young Bally never complained. By the time the first World War broke out, he was too deaf to be called up, and since his eyesight had also begun to fail, he soon stopped keeping track of the war news. He learned...
...women will trudge up the creaky staircase to the auditor's office to pay their annual rent. It is one of the world's real housing bargains. The annual rent is still what Jakob Fugger decreed it to be 400 years ago: the equivalent of one Rhenish guilder...
...violation of all that is sacred to men, I wondered if going to Melbourne could have any sense. We are sportsmen, but we are not soft in the head, are we?'' The Netherlands' Olympic Committee answered that question by withdrawing from the games, donating 100,000 guilder?, ($26,000) of its Olympic fund to Hungarian war relief...
...sell," he said. "We finally decided that we ought to stick to publishing and leave the cheese business to the dairymen. But the research was fun - I've never eaten so much good cheese in all my life." Today the guilder is one of the world's strongest and most easily convertible currencies...