Word: 42nd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...service in Morocco under the famous General d'Amade. At the beginning of the War, he, was a major and was rapidly promoted to be General for his brilliant work. At the last German offensive on Rheims, he had under his command the U. S. "Rainbow Division" (42nd) as well as the 2nd and 36th U. S. Divisions, whom he commended in army orders for their valor, spirit, ardor...
...George McManus' comic strip have been trouping through the one-night stands. One of them has suddenly, and quite unaccountably, turned up in a Broadway theatre. Loud was the cynics' laughter. Manhattan will not endure for many nights a one- nightstand company dressed up in 42nd Street clothing. Both as to wit, music and performance the offering was generously condemned as the season's dead...
...Aeolian Co. until May 1, 1929, on which date cigarettes and cheap cutlery will oust Art from the premises. Meanwhile, five more seasons of concerts will be heard inside the 43rd Street entrance, and for five years talking machines, radio apparatus and electric pianos will be sold from the 42nd Street side. Then the five-and-ten will raise its scarlet standard, and the tobacco company will begin to profit on its $6,000,000 outlay...
Solemn high mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, formally opened the 42nd Annual Convention of the Knights of Columbus. Bishop William Turner of Buffalo keynoted with a sermon on that popular subject, Atnericanism?aiming veiled thrusts at the K. K. K. The 356 delegates arose from their knees, paraded down Fifth Ave. to the Waldorf-Astoria...
...with a New York Symphony concert under the baton of Walter Damrosch, featuring Dame Maggie Teyte as soloist. Since then, practically every artist of . international repute, from Ignace Paderewski to "Jerry" Farrar, has appeared on its platform. The concert-entrance is on 43rd Street, the Aeolian business entrance on 42nd Street. Thus the tainted atmosphere of commercialism was never permitted to invade the sanctum of Art. Now and then, free player-piano and player-organ concerts were given of a forenoon when no orchestra was rehearsing, but these, being free, were not too well attended. The sale of the Hall...