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...slide-fastened fly gives a much smoother and neater effect in front than is possible with buttons, but the ordinary slide fastener has an uncovered strip of metal that is objectionable to men who take pride in being well-dressed...
...shouted "Censorship!" He said he would be at the General's next conference anyway. Last week some 200 excited newsmen saw him get no further than the door, despite a telegram from Grocery Trade News calling him its accredited correspondent. At the conference General Johnson, looking calmer and neater than usual, denied any intention, of censoring genuine press members, said he objected only to misrepresentation of NRA by "confidential'' writers who got their information by posing as accredited representatives of newspapers or trade journals. That day the correspondents' admissions committee barred James True from House & Senate...
Composer Mascagni believes that all his operas are as good, if not better, than Cavalleria, Rusticana. II Piccolo Marat, for instance, which has been given in Rome and Buenos Aires though never in Manhattan, is a far neater piece of construction; four interweaving orchestral tones, built on four connected themes, knit the score to- gether; the scene is Nantes during the Terror, the villain, one Orso, a guillotining cockaded butcher, the heroine is his daughter, the hero, a nobleman so pure that he is called "The Little Marat." What more could one ask? And yet Pietro Mascagni, now walking...
...manners of Oxford tutors were described with kindly justice by Dr. Brinton. His rapid and clear survey gives a vivid picture of Oxford life and it is a considerable achievement to have simplified without distortion the mass of inconsistencies and inefficiencies which is Oxford. I can only recall one neater sketch. It is this...
...everything is in disorder. There are bits of dingy rag carpet on the floor; a single harness, cider jug, horse pall, and other things have been left carelessly about the room. By the second act, five years later, a woman has entered the house, the room is much neater, and a bright carpet has replaced the rags on the floor...