Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been lost since 1918, approximately the year in which Messrs. Lindsay's & Grouse's puns, concerning souls and heels and counterfeiters who forge ahead, lost their bloom. Also second-best in the opinion of most listeners is the score Cole Porter has composed for his 12th musical show. Victim of his own previous high standards, Composer Porter will doubtless have the misfortune of hearing Red, Hot and Blue's comic number, "It's De-Love-ly," unfavorably compared with "A Picture Of Me Without You" which he wrote last year for Jubilee, and his current torch...
...scroll in caricature dating from the 12th Century shows Buddhist priests in the shape of monkeys, frogs and squirrels dressed in leaves and carrying lily pads for umbrellas...
Last week, on the 75th anniversary of the battle which the South calls First Manassas and the North calls First Bull Run, a Stonewall Jackson again rode the field at Manassas. He was lean, Kentucky-born Major Stonewall Jackson of the 12th U. S. Infantry, no kin to his famed namesake, commanding a "Confederate" force of 1,000 Army men and R.O.T.C. boys in a re-enactment of one of the South's proudest battles. A thousand Marines from Quantico, in special blue fatigue uniforms, took the part of Union troops...
What the scrappy, all-inclusive Society of Independent Artists is to Manhattan, the No-Jury Society of Artists is to Chicago. Last month the 12th annual No-Jury show was scheduled to exhibit its 393 pictures in a large room on The Fair store's eighth floor. Last week, after a controversy on matters of artistic propriety had been waged between the No-Jury exhibition directors and the store's executives, the 200 artists picked up their canvases, walked out of The Fair ("A Great Store in a Great City"), opened their show instead in an old mansion...
...Whereas, we have resolved by favor of the blessing of Almighty God to celebrate in solemnity our royal coronation at Westminster upon Wednesday, the 12th day of May next...