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...claque (house-paid clappers) and a handful of enthusiasts flocked to the front, shouted bravos at Mezzo-Soprano Ina Bourskaya and Tenor Antonin Trantoul. The big asbestos curtain hushed all that and the Metropolitan's regular season was ended. Supplementary Holy Week performances were scheduled to follow. But uppermost were plans for the annual spring tour. This year's route and repertoire...
Queen Victoria, with a sentiment typically "Victorian," never forgot the coincidence which linked herself with "Dear Little May," and some historians hold that this was uppermost in the old lady's mind when she decided that the blooming girl should wed the Heir of Britain...
...esteemed contemporary recently viewed the House Plan at Harvard as meaning nothing more than "added paternalism and increased floor space." There are, no doubt, many who would be pleased to construe the experiment as simply as that, yet the fact remains there are several questions which are uppermost and will not be settled until the scheme has a reality...
...Uppermost in the minds of spectators at the Women's National Tennis Tournament at Forest Hills, L. I., last week was the question: Who will be the other finalist? Perhaps sure-finalist Helen Wills herself thought she knew when she said, "Sarah Palfrey ... is the best young prospect in the tournament...
...thoughts that are uppermost in the minds of the public are not whether this country shall sell arms to Mexico or enter the World Court. Instead, filled with the spirit of human kinship, they prefer to read the accounts of astute newspaper men who have bribed the White House cook to discover if the President prefers two or three minute eggs. It is their desire to know if the Hoovers intend to keep dogs or cats, not whether there are going to be any further developments in the disarmament situation. The great question is, will President Hoover look well...