... helped to give the impression of a poor repertoire. There was, of course, more variety among the sonatas, but, generally speaking, the heavy type was favoured. So long as the repertoire was of this description, its enjoyment was restricted to robust appetites ...

... transference to the keyboard. In the recording, the narrator speaks English with that precision which marks the foreign linguist, as English people never think it worth while to use so much care in speaking their own language. This naturally makes him sound rather ...

... dislike him there are some, but few say that he speaks the language of an ancien diplomate retraiti, which is the opposite of the language they speak themselves but that is not to his discredit, for who would speak better French than an Ambassador of lifelong ...

... surprised to learn that there are over fifty fishery boards, each having under its juris diction one or more rivers. Generally speaking, the jurisdiction extends to all lakes and ponds, private or otherwise. The members of the boards are voluntary but repr ...

... are all in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, while F. L, M. Harris is a Flight Lieutenant in charge of a covey of balloons. Speaking as a balloonatic in the last war, he has my sympathy; but I suppose he doesn't have to go up in the darn things Harris devotes ...

... of work carried on by the women of the Empire to carry this country toicards victory. Recently one of the American papers, speaking of this country in time of war, referred to her Majesty as 44 one of Britain's incalculable assets which reflects the admiration ...

... senses take command. That is why the wise woman chooses her perlume with such care, and wears it always. She knows that perfume speaks a language no logic can or need explain. She knows that while lovely frocks, stylish hair and perfect make-up can make her ...

... motorist he |had driven slap into the water-cart and was picked up rather the worse for wear. He could not speak English, and our drivers could not speak French. The French driver pointed out that the trailer had had no tail-lamp and that therefore he was ...

... considered sufficient to warrant the engagement of two singers and a chorus except at Sadler's Wells, where these are, so to speak, available on the premises. But these could be dispensed with, and Terp sichore's dances presented as a prelude to those of ...

... in Germany. Wilde pilloried them in The Critic as Artist, in the person of a certain Baroness Bernstein, who insisted on speaking of music as if it were a dialect of the German language, which it does not in the least resemble. Allied to them are those ...

... Elena was two years older. She was British, while Peggy was American. But Peggy had had a stage training that enabled her to speak almost perfect English when occasion demanded. Also, Peggy was the sweeter tempered, but this was not difficult. On the screen ...

... to the Bach vogue, there are still people who question its genu ineness. They think that the tone adop ted by musicians in speaking or writing of Bach has induced in others the belief that they mu like him, whether they do or not, because not to like him ...