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...giving him a job that Kiepura later leaves the company when he finds the composer is also in love with Miss Swarthout. The complications intervening until the curtain can fall on the Kiepura & Swarthout reunion, after a superb aria in Romeo & Juliet, are concerned with bringing him back, getting rid of the drunken self-worshipping tenor...
...crash. Thanks to her French connections she meets aristocratic, smoothly handsome André de Verviers, and because his physical attraction is extreme, takes him as a lover-antidote. At the time her story opens she has discovered that as a person she dislikes him intensely but cannot get rid of him. What Isabelle wants is to marry Laurence, an impeccable Virginia gentleman who has gone to Paris to ask her. Life with him, she is sure, would be peaceful, quiet and no trouble. Though she hates violence, she plans and carries out a violent scene at André de Venders...
Lawyers, pondering the decision, foresaw that this enthusiasm might assume too much. Only the Wilson Dam had been declared legal. Some other dam might be found otherwise. The Court did not pass on the right of the Government to retail electricity, only to take the necessary steps to get rid of a byproduct. Nor did the Court pass on the right of the Government to distribute its power for social purposes in a wider area than would constitute a "reasonable market." However, TVA men had a right to rejoice: They had been freed of a major legal threat, could accomplish...
...stock. And Mayor Wilson had a plan, with which Dr. Mitten agreed, that was much more pleasing to the employe-stockholders, though it seemed likely that the Delaware River would run upstream before the creditors would accept it. So Mayor Wilson and Dr. Mitten wanted the employes to get rid of the trustees and put the Wilson Plan before the Court, whereas President Senter wanted them to prolong the trustee ship and accept the Company Plan...
...after much ado, feeling he hath won my humour, he did present the bill which being so large I swore not to pay. But he, with much technique, did win me over. I, much vexed; for such business doth displease me; and was glad at my heart to be rid...