"Klein" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Series," treats of the training of Chinese coolies for work with the Labour Corps in the B.E.F. The special interest of the racial type was, for me, exhausted by the charming photographs; the task remaining for Mr. DARYL KLEIN, Lieutenant in the Chinese Labour Corps, of so conveying the atmosphere as to absorb the reader's attention, was not achieved. On the two main aspects of the topic, the origin in China and the result in France, he makes no serious attempt. I got no clear impression of ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, February 18th, 1920 • Various
... barytone. Other singers were Auguste Krauss (who now became Seidl-Krauss), Max Alvary, tenor; Frulein Slach, mezzo-soprano; Eloi Sylva, tenor; Kemlitz, tenor; Lehmler, bass; Frau Krmer-Wiedl, dramatic soprano; Herr Alexi, barytone, and Frulein Klein, soprano. With this company the second season of German opera was opened on November 23, 1885, the opera being "Lohengrin." I shall not take up the features of the season seriatim, nor make detailed record of the consecutive productions ...
— Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel
... "Mueller, the blacksmith; Klein, the butcher's man; Pfeiffer, the weaver's journeyman. Three very ordinary liars. ...
— The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories • Mark Twain
... to be a good deal excited. It was not very warm in the room, but the perspiration was pouring off of Klein's forehead. ...
— The Crime of the French Cafe and Other Stories • Nicholas Carter
... frequently mentioned by other workers besides Yeddie. Two years ago, in a waist and dress factory where 400 operatives—more than 300 girls and about 20 men—were employed for the company by a well-known subcontractor, Jake Klein, a foreman asked Mr. Klein to beset some of the girls for a degree of speed he said he was unwilling to demand. The manager discharged him. He asked to speak to the girls before he went away. The manager refused his request. As Mr. Klein turned ...
— Making Both Ends Meet • Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith Wyatt
... their skin comes off. There is nothing to prevent Professor Sanderson from employing assistants. The mind may be the mind of Professor Sanderson, but the knife may be the knife of such a man as Dr. Klein, who was his former assistant at the Brown Institution, and who has publicly declared that "he has no regard at all for the sufferings ...
— Great Testimony - against scientific cruelty • Stephen Coleridge |
