Word: 145th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this happened by way of celebration of the laying of the cornerstone of what is to be the "American Institute of Operatic Art" at Stony Point, N. Y., on the 145th anniversary of Mad Anthony Wayne's famous victory over the Redcoats on that spot. Max Rabinoff, impresario, is the guiding spirit of the enterprise, although the act of laying the stone was performed by William H. King, junior U. S. Senator from Utah, and although the principal address was delivered by H. W. L. Hubbard, critic for The Chicago Tribune...
There is one man in England today who is less ambitious than formerly, and he is Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, winner of the 145th Derby -by grace of the three-year-old "mud horse," Sansovino...