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...Boston Symphony Orchestra, four years since. At any rate, Miss Braslau far overleaped it last Sunday, singing the song, as she did, with a realism too intense to be excelled. In other numbers of Schubert she triumphed as well. Especially did she impart to "Gretchen am Spinnrade," the soft sheen, the delicate shadings, which the composer intended. She succeeded not so well with some of the other numbers of her program not because of consistently bad singing of them as because of blotches, occasional hard topes which grated on the ear. It is to be regretted that singers like Miss...
...price, however, of this aid to the poor was five dollars a ton higher than the price of coke sold by private concerns. A few days ago, in North Cambridge and Somerville, several families paid eighteen dollars a ton for an excellent grade of crushed rock, powdered with wet soft coal dust, which an affable stranger offered them in unlimited quantities. A small town in the heart of the Pennsylvania anthracite district has had to appeal to the federal government for aid in securing coal to heat its schools...
Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, said in his recent speech at the Union, "There are two kinds of Americans--the soft-headed pacifists and the hard-headed peace lovers." The soft-headed pacifists cost us many a groan and not a few groats in the last war. If we had been a little better prepared, we could have saved millions in men and money by ending the war a year sooner than...
...Soft heads are much commoner than hard ones, even today. They seem to have learned nothing from the war. They are now proclaiming that the way to prevent war is for us to disarm--not necessarily concurrently with the other nations, but alone, as an example for the other nations to follow. Since this chimerical statement by itself is not enough to soften the skulls of most Americans, its advocates resort to another more potent argument. They say that disarmament will reduce taxes, will put money into the pockets of us all; and under the melting influence of this argument...
...Pullman trip is deceptive. The seats are too soft, the head rest too comfortable, and the porters, when properly encouraged, too obliging. It is altogether dangerously easy to doze off and miss the best part of the journey...