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...girl who worked as a sales girl reported she learnt "humility", and that shop girls are more than one "who leaves you stranded in a fitting room while you miss your luncheon date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Work Term Directs and Sorts Talents | 5/16/1952 | See Source »

...have been so grateful in coming across your newspaper address as we learnt is the best and most serviceable newspaper you have in your town at present. We shall be extremely grateful and joyful it you will be so kind in publishing this our few lines in the front page of your daily or weekly journal as written below...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Want a Calabash? | 1/17/1952 | See Source »

...allowed to practice. How many youngsters are ready to work as hard learning to draw? Yet drawing is as difficult and takes as long a training, and without it the painter is only the kind of practitioner that the doctor is who has but a fake degree. . . . Having learnt to draw, and then the relatively easier discipline of painting, let the artist express himself-if he can afford to wait so long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: First Step: Learn to Draw | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Passionate Pilgrim | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...recent death means the end of a musical era, as well as a great loss to Columbia. He, and his contemporaries, Seidl, Mahler, Mottl, etc., grew up in Germany when Germany was cock of the musical roost and knew it. They worked under Liszt in Weimar, they learnt their Wagner opera in Bayrenth under the eye of the "Master," and in the flush post-war days they made Salzburg a summer Mecca for European big-wigs, where Mozart and Beethoven had to fight Schiaparell for the center of the stage. Of all this illustrious company of conductors, Weingartner was perhaps...

Author: By Robert W. Flint, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 8/5/1942 | See Source »

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