Word: ais
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...told," cried Feng sarcastically, "that when men in Honan desire to move to the adjoining province of Shensi in search of livelihood, their wives seize their gowns and sob, 'Ai-ya, my loved one, why will you go to that far-away place...
There are six new singers. Sopranos are: Clara Jacobo, born in Italy, brought up in Lawrence, Mass., for three years member of Gallo's San Carlo Opera Company; Pearl Besuner of Cincinnati, for five years with the Cincinnati Zoo Opera; Ai'da Doninelli, Italian, who three years ago came from Central America and settled in Chicago, to make her debut the first week in A'ida. Mezzo-sopranos: Grace Divine of Cincinnati, first week debut in Manon Lescant; Jane 'Carroll (nee Helen Howard) of Louisville, Ky., alumna of the Ziegfeld Follies chorus and The Vagabond King, to make her debut...
...Ai, madre," they protested, "how could you ask a girl to do such a terrible thing?" Laconically, coldly the Mother Superior replied, "I am using girls for everything...
...metre run--Miller and George Morin, B. A. A.: 400-metre run--F. A. Burns, B. A. A.: 800-metre run--Martin B. A. A.: 1500-metre run--R. A. Dalrymple and H. C. Cutbill, B. A. A.: 500-metre run--William Simons, Dorchester Club; Hop, Step and Jump AI Rogan, B. A. A.: Hammer throw--Edward Flanagan, B. A. A.: Discus throw--Pratt: Javelin throw--A. W. Sager...
Hankow. Strangely enough th Nationalists who had ousted the British from their concession ai Hankow found this valuable property a white elephant. Local Chinese merchants who habitually dealt through the British banks discovered their contact and means of trading with the outside world cut off. Manufacture, commerce, shipping were at a standstill. The few Britons who remained had barricaded themselves in a steel bank vault. Soon blotchy hysterical posters appeared: "Death to the British slaves who are trying tc strangle us by stopping our commerce...