Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...57th day of the current year (Feb. 26) the H. J. Heinz Co. of Pittsburgh, famed makers of 57 varieties of pickles, celebrated the 57th anniversary of the founding of the business...
...wings, so the course of events leading up to last week's vote in the Metropolitan board of directors was not without conflict and a tinge of acrimony. Last December Otto Hermann Kahn, chairman of the board and largest stockholder, bought the city block bounded by 56th and 57th Sts. and by 8th and 9th Aves. He did this quietly, anonymously, and proceeded to bring about the Metropolitan's vote of removal. There is a conservative faction in the producing company, stockholders with blood of deepest indigo and an inbred suspicion of change. To control this element...
...Carnegie Hall gay with Italian and U.S. flags, 3,000 people sat and awaited the greatest event in Manhattan's music season. Three thousand people sat, hundreds more stood, jammed tightly in back of a red plush rail, and hundreds more turned reluctant feet down 57th Streethick-set little man scooted out on the stage and started for the conductor's daisg a band of able musicians how his "Clock" symphony should be playedras for nearly a decade now. Here are the pines of the Villa Borgheseini, a triumph for Respighi and the U.S. debut of a certain English nightingale...
...morning the 57th Regiment of the Filipino Scouts and part of the Twelfth Medical Regiment refused to turn out for drill and other martial exercises. Their white officers exhorted them; the 600 Filipinos shook their heads. As a matter of fact, they wanted more pay. They are paid on the same scale that American soldiers are paid, but whereas the Americans are paid dollars, the Filipinos are paid pesos. Pesos are worth 50? each, and the Scouts had discovered that the arrangement worked to their disadvantage. They considered what fitting action should be taken and decided to prepare...
...good fight well fought" was the epithet used to describe the Varsity boat race at the 57th Yale-Harvard Regatta.* The outcome was never in doubt, even before the event started; in such circumstances, Harvard's performance was a high tribute to their courage, determination and sportsmanship...