Word: appearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the week Burmese natives killed three British officers attached to an expedition operating through Upper Burma to free all remaining slaves. Over 1,000 slaves were freed by similar expeditions, last year, and the native chiefs appear incensed over this interference with their ancient property rights by agents of the British Raj, the power which seized Burma, by right of armed invasion...
...excursioners assembled, waited shuffling and uncertain near the appointed spot on Monte Subasio for an entire day. Gabriele D'Annunzio, the willful, the perverse, simply did not appear...
...hundred thousand Britishers gathered at the Crystal Palace, near London, in 1859 to honor the memory of Composer George Frederick Handel. An able tenor was to climax the music festival. The audience waited; he did not appear. Suddenly, a voice, clearer and purer than any they had ever heard, swelled through Crystal Palace. They saw a choir boy of 14, Edward Lloyd...
When Edward Lloyd left the church choir, where he had sung with Arthur Sullivan (later famed as the composer of the light opera team of Gilbert & Sullivan), to appear in concerts, a cleric warned him of choosing between God and Mammon. "I prefer Mammon to your narrow-minded religion," said young Mr. Lloyd as he set out to charm all England...
...real successes are the great "Lincoln" in Washington* and the beautiful "Angel of Death." Industrious as a boy making mud pies, Daniel French has fashioned statues which appear in most large U. S. cities, made during the two and a half score years since he quit...